ROBERT
LAIDLAW
THE Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire is a son of
the late William Laidlaw, farmer, Bonchester, Roxburghshire, and was born 10th
January, 1856. He was educated at Kirkton and Denholm parish schools, and,
entering upon a business career, resided for twenty years in India. He is
chairman of the firm of Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd., of London, India, and
China, and is proprietor of tea estates in Darjeeling and of rubber estates in
the Federated Malay States. He is also a director of the Pilot Insurance
Corporation.
In 1906, at the General Election, he was returned for the East Renfrewshire
constituency in the Liberal interest. In 1908 he was appointed one of the
British representatives on the International Opium Commission.
Mr. Laidlaw married in 1879, Mary E., daughter of Captain W. B. Collins, and
widow of the late W. L. Francis. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society, and a member of the Reform, National Liberal, and Glasgow Liberal
Clubs.
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