William McCombie

Who was William McCombie?

William McCombie, Scottish agriculturist, was born at Tillyfour, Aberdeenshire, where he founded the herd of black-polled cattle with which his name is associated. He was the first tenant farmer to represent a Scottish constituency, and was returned to Parliament, unopposed, as Liberal Party Member of Parliament for the western division of Aberdeen at the 1868 general election. He died unmarried in February 1880. His work Cattle and Cattlebreeders passed into a fourth edition in 1886.