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Name
  
Robert Menzies

Role
  
Politician

Died
  
January 25, 1889


Robert Stewart Menzies Robert Stewart Menzies Fraser 1893 1964 Find A Grave Memorial

Robert Stewart Menzies (1856 – 25 January 1889) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1889.

Robert Stewart Menzies Robert Stewart Menzies Fraser 1893 1964 Find A Grave Memorial

Menzies was the son of Graham Menzies (died 1880), an Edinburgh distiller of Hallyburton, Cupar Angus, and his wife Beatrice (d.1899), daughter of William Dudgeon, merchant of Leith, Edinburgh. He was educated at Harrow School, and at Christ Church, Oxford and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1882. He was a J.P. for Perthshire and Forfar.

In 1885, Menzies was elected Member of Parliament for East Perthshire. He held the seat until his death at the age of 33 in 1889. He was the uncle of Major-General Sir Stewart Menzies.

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Robert Stewart Menzies Wikipedia