James Annand was a Scottish

Scottish people

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 journalist, newspaper editor and Liberal Party

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 politician.

Born at Longside

Longside

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, Aberdeenshire

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, Scotland

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, the eldest son of blacksmith

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 Robert Annand and his wife Margaret Moir, James Annand began his working life following in his father's trade as a blacksmith in Longside. He bought a share of the Buchan Observer

Buchan Observer

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and became its editor for about six years. Thereafter, he edited several newspapers in North East England

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: from 1874 to 1877 he edited the Newcastle

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 Daily Chronicle, from 1877 to 1885 the South Shields

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 Gazette, and finally from 1885 to 1895 was editor of the Northern Weekly Leader. After an unsuccessful bid for a parliamentary seat in Tynemouth

Tynemouth

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 in 1892, he was elected at the general election in January 1906

United Kingdom general election, 1906

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 as the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for East Aberdeenshire

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. He died in London

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 sixteen days later, before he had an opportunity to take his seat, thus becoming one of the shortest-serving MPs in history.

His brother, Robert Cumming Annand, was also involved in the newspaper industry.

James Annand was briefly married to Mary Hannah Burt in 1899 until her death in 1900.

Sources

• Hodgson, George B. From smithy to senate: The life story of James Annand, journalist and politician. London: Cassell, 1908.

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