Kenneth Martin Lindsay was a Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician on the United Kingdom

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 who joined the breakaway National Labour group.

Standing as a Labour candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the Oxford

Oxford (UK Parliament constituency)

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 constituency at the 1924 by-election

Oxford by-election, 1924

The Oxford by-election, 1924 was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 June 1924 for the British House of Commons constituency of Oxford. The seat had become vacant when the Liberal Member of Parliament Frank Gray had been unseated on petition, after his agent had falsified the account for his...

, Harrow

Harrow (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1924

United Kingdom general election, 1924

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 and Worcester

Worcester (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1929

United Kingdom general election, 1929

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. When the Labour Party split in 1931 and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald

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 formed a National Government with the Conservative Party

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, Lindsay followed MacDonald into the breakaway National Labour group.

In 1933, Craigie Aitchison, the National Labour Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock (UK Parliament constituency)

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, was appointed as a judge and resigned his seat

Resignation from the British House of Commons

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. At the resulting by-election

Kilmarnock by-election, 1933

The Kilmarnock by-election, 1933 was a by-election held on 2 November 1933 for the British House of Commons constituency of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire.- Vacancy :...

 on 2 November, Lindsay defeated the Labour candidate, and was re-elected comfortably at the 1935 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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. He held the seat until 1945, later sitting as a National Independent.

He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1935 to 1937, and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education

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 from 1937 to 1940.

He did not contest Kilmarnock at the 1945 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1945

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, but was elected as an independent

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 member for the Combined English Universities

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, holding the seat until the University constituencies were abolished for the 1950 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1950

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.