Malcolm Smith (British politician)

Sir Malcolm Smith (1 December 1856 – 12 March 1935)[1] was a Scottish Liberal Party politician.

Smith was born and brought up in a crofting family in Hoswick Shetland but moved to the port of Leith as a young man.

There he prospered as a businessman and became the Provost of Leith from 1908 to 1917,[2] shortly before the town was incorporated into the city of Edinburgh.

[4] He died in Leith and was buried in Warriston Cemetery to the south-east of the vaults.

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