Ralph George Campbell Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn, (3 March 1884 – 1 May 1960) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1953. March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Year 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

At the 1918 general election, he was elected as MP for the Scottish constituency of Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire. However he lost the seat at the 1922 general election, coming third with 28% of the votes. The United Kingdom general election of 1918 held on 14th December 1918, after the Representation of the People Act 1918. ... Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1983, when the name was changed to Clackmannan. ... The UK general election of 1922 was held on 15th November 1922. ...

The following year, at the 1923 general election, Glyn stood in the Conservative-held seat of Abingdon, where the MP Arthur Loyd was not standing again. Lloyd's majority in 1922 had been only 640 votes, and Glyn lost by 254 votes (1.2% of the total) to the Liberal candidate Edward Lessing. The UK general election of 1923 was held on 5th December 1923. ... Abingdon was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1983. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ...

However, at the 1924 general election, Glyn substantially increased his vote, and won the seat with a majority of over 4,000 votes. He represented the constituency for nearly thirty years, and was returned unopposed at the 1931 election and at the 1935 election. The 1924 UK general election was held on 29th October 1924. ... The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. ... Stanley Baldwin Clement Attlee The UK general election held on 14th November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin. ...

He married in 1921 Sibell Vanden Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of the second Lord Derwent and widow of Brigadier General Walter Long CMG. She was the mother of the 2nd Viscount Long. Sibell died in 1958. This article is about the American actor. ... The peerage title Viscount Long was created in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1921. ...

He was made a baronet in 1935, of Farnborough Downs, in the County of Berkshire, and in 1953 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Glyn. There were no children from the marriage and both titles became extinct on his death in 1960. A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt), is the holder of an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown, known as a baronetcy. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Berks redirects here. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...

Sources

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.