Hugh Murnin born Bathgate was a Scottish politician, Labour

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 MP for Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

Stirling and Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)

Stirling and Falkirk Burghs was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918, comprising the burghs of Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth. It ceased to be a District of Burghs in 1950, but a constituency of the same name covering...

 from 1922 to 1923, and from 1924 to 1931.

Murnin left elementary school aged nine, entered the mines, and worked his way up to become a leader of the Scottish miners.

A Roman Catholic, Murnin apparently suggested the formation of a centrist Scottish Catholic party in 1912. Like Joseph Sullivan

Joseph Sullivan (MP)

Joseph Sullivan was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1922 to 1924, and from 1926 to 1931....

 (1866–1935), another Catholic miner, Murnin first managed to be elected to Parliament in 1922.

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