Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman, 1st Baronet
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Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party
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 politician in the United Kingdom
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. He was elected at the 1923 general election
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 as Member of Parliament
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 (MP) for Middleton and Prestwich
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, and held the seat until his death in 1940.

He was born in Perthshire
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, the son of Col. Frank Stewart Sandeman of Stanley, Perthshire, and Laura Condie; he was educated Trinity College, Glenalmond
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 and married Evelyn F. J. Bell.

In the 1929 King's Birthday Honours, he was made a baronet
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, of Kenlygreen, St Andrews
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, Fife. The title became extinct on his death.
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