John Collie (doctor)

Sir Robert John Collie CMG DL JP (15 August 1860[1] –4 April 1935) was a Scottish medical doctor and public servant who also served as National Liberal Party MP for Glasgow Partick from 1922 to 1923.

[3] He was a Lloyd George supporting National Liberal candidate for the Partick Division of Glasgow at the 1922 General Election.

In 1918 Partick had been won by a Lloyd George supporting Liberal, who had decided to retire.

He comfortably won the seat; In parliament he voted against a Unionist government amendment to the Safeguarding of Industries Act 1921 in which he joined with other Liberals in support of Free trade.

[5] In 1923 he introduced a Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Bill, however before the bill had the chance to be passed, the Unionist Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin dissolved parliament to have an election on his policies of introducing trade tariffs.