Robert Duncan (5 October 1850–1925)[1] was a Conservative politician in Scotland.

Prior to his political career, Duncan worked for Ross & Duncan engineers and boilermakers. He and his wife Mary Ann Jolly (1865–1929) had one son, the physicist William Jolly Duncan, and two daughters.[2]

Robert Duncan was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Govan at the 1906 general election, but was defeated at the January 1910 general election.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G"
  2. ↑ Relf, Ernest F. (1 November 1961). "William Jolly Duncan, 1894-1960". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7: 37–51. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1961.0004. JSTOR 769395. S2CID 72074561.
  3. ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 546. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.


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