Archibald Williamson, 1st Baron Forres

He entered parliament in the aftermath of the 1906 Liberal landslide election, taking a seat from the Conservatives.

[3] He was Chairman of a number of Home Office, Board of Trade and parliamentary committees and was a member of the Mesopotamia Commission of Enquiry in 1916.

In June 1922, before the next general election, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Forres, of Glenogil in the County of Forfar.

His recommendation for a peerage during the Lloyd George honours scandal created a public uproar when it was revealed that his oil firm, Williamson, Balfour and Co, had been accused of trading with the enemy during the war.

Outside Parliament, he was a director of the Central Argentine Railway, Balfour Williamson & Co, and of several other companies.