James Scott (Liberal politician)

He was a member of the Game and Heather Burning Committee in 1921; a Deputy Chairman for Trade Boards for Jute, Flax, and Made-up Textiles, 1921–24; Vice-President and Trustee of the Scottish Rural Workers Approved Society and founder of the Scottish National Union of Allotment-holders.

In October 1924 he unsuccessfully fought Kincardine and West Aberdeen but was eventually elected to the House of Commons at the 1929 general election when he gained Kincardine and West Aberdeen by the narrow majority of 668 votes beating the sitting Unionist MP C M Barclay-Harvey.

The Association ungallantly refused to hear him however and Hamilton issued a statement saying how the decision struck at the very heart of Liberalism in Perth and throughout Scotland.

Perhaps significantly, Norie-Miller did not stand for re-election at the 1935 general election a few months later when the contest was a straight fight between Unionist and Labour candidates, resulting in a large Conservative majority.

[10] In the event, the election was won comfortably by former prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, the National Labour candidate.