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The late Mr. Alexander Craig Sellar, M.P., 1890. Creator: Unknown.
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The late Mr. Alexander Craig Sellar, M.P., 1890. 'Mr. Sellar, born in 1835, was son of the late Mr. Patrick Sellar of Westfield, Morayshire, and was educated at Rugby and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1858. He was called to the Scotch Bar in 1862. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner to the Education (Scotland) Commission in 1864, and was legal secretary to the Lord Advocate of Scotland from 1870 to 1874. [He] was a member of the Truck Act Commission (1870). He unsuccessfully contested Devonport in the Liberal interest in 1880, but was returned for the Haddington Burghs in August 1882. At the general election in November 1885 he was returned for the Particle Division of Lanarkshire. On the introduction of Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill he declared himself in favour of supporting the Union, and was again returned for Partick at the ensuing general election. Mr. Sellar was one of the Deputy Chairmen of "Ways and Means" in the House of Commons, and will be remembered for his persevering efforts to decentralise the work of Parliament as regards Private Bills, and his scheme for appointing a kind of "roving commission " to visit different parts of the country, at stated times, to consider measures affecting local interests'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.
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