William McCombie Scottish

Scotland

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 agriculturist, was born at Tillyfour, Aberdeenshire

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, where he founded the herd of black-polled cattle with which his name is associated. He was the first tenant farmer

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 to represent a Scottish constituency, and was returned to Parliament

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, unopposed, as Liberal Party

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 Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for the western division of Aberdeen

West Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1868 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1868

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. He died unmarried in February 1880. His work Cattle and Cattlebreeders (1867) passed into a fourth edition in 1886.