James Orr MacAndrew
Deceased Person
1889 – 1979
Who was James Orr MacAndrew?
James Orr MacAndrew was Unionist MP for South Ayrshire for 1931-35.
This was normally a safe Labour seat which MacAndrew did well to win in the National Government landslide in the 1931 general election, but he lost it in the limited Labour revival in 1935.
His education included time at Glenalmond College and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and was severely wounded in France in 1918.
He was an army officer, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. During the Second World War He was Honorary Colonel of the Ayrshire Yeomanry.
In addition to his political and military achievements he was Joint-Master of the Eglinton Foxhounds 1939-40.
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