British politician (1881–1953)
Sir Thomas Drummond Shiels MC MB ChB (7 August 1881 – 1 January 1953) was a Scottish Labour politician.
Life
The grave of Drummond Shiels, Grange Cemetery The son of James Drummond Shiels, photographer, and Agnes Campbell of Edinburgh , he was educated at Edinburgh University where he graduated MB ChB . Prior to obtaining his medical degree he worked as a photographer in Edinburgh.[ 1]
He was commissioned into the Royal Scots in 1915[ 2] 9th (Scottish) Division . He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross [ 3] Belgian Croix de Guerre . He ended the war as a captain .
He was a member of Edinburgh Town Council and Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East from 1924 to 1931. He served in government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India in 1929 and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1929 to 1931.
He was a Fellow and Senior President Royal Medical Society and Deputy-Secretary of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association . He was knighted in the 1939 Birthday Honours for his service as Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee for Educational work of the Non-political Empire Societies in London.[ 4]
He contributed the opening chapter to The British Commonwealth, a Family of Peoples published in 1952.[ 5]
He is buried with his parents near the south-west corner of the western extensions to Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh .
References
^ The Times House of Commons 1929 . London: The Times Office. 1929. p. 123.^ London Gazette, 5 October 1915, page 9878. ^ Edinburgh Gazette, 29 July 1918, page 2667. ^ London Gazette, 18 July 1939, page 4916. ^ The British Commonwealth , Odhams Press, London, 1952, revised edition 1961.
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