Basil Neven-Spence, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Basil Neven-Spence

British politician

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1888

Place of Birth: Leith, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 13-Sep-1974

Profession: politician, military physician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Basil Neven-Spence

  • Sir Basil Hamilton Hebden Neven-Spence (12 June 1888 – 13 September 1974) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and military physician. Neven-Spence came from a prominent landowning family in the Shetland Islands.
  • Neven-Spence graduated from Edinburgh University in 1911.
  • He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, seconded to help the Egyptian Army and government of Sudan, and in the First World War, mainly in the Middle East.
  • He received the Order of the Nile for his role in the Darfur Expedition.
  • Following the war he organised a campaign to treat sleeping sickness in Darfur.
  • He returned to the University of Edinburgh to study for an M.D., before moving to Aldershot in 1924 to work as a specialist physician to the British Army.
  • He retired from the Army in 1927 with the rank of Major. Neven-Spence's family had owned property in Shetland for several generations and he became Vice-Convenor of Zetland County Council. Neven-Spence first contested the Orkney and Shetland constituency in 1929, stepping down prior to the 1931 general election.
  • He was re-elected in 1935 and served as the Member of Parliament until he lost his seat at the 1950 general election to Jo Grimond of the Liberal Party.
  • He was knighted in 1945 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Shetland from 1952-1963.
  • To the present day, Neven-Spence is the most recent MP for the Orkney and Shetland constituency to not be from either the Liberal Party or their successor party, the Liberal Democrats; as they have retained the seat ever since Grimond gained it at the 1950 general election.
  • He once lived on the island of Uyea.

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