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Sir William Young Darling, CBE, MC (8 May 1885 – 4 February 1962) was the Unionist Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons for the Edinburgh South constituency from 1945 to 1957. He was a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland 1942-57. He was the second son of William Darling of Edinburgh. He was educated at James Gillespie’s School; Daniel Stewart’s College; Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh University. He had the degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) He was awarded the Military Cross during the First World War, with bar. He became a member of Edinburgh City Council in 1933 and was City Treasurer, 1937–40. He was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1941–44; National Government Candidate for West Lothian, 1937; and Chairman, Scottish Council on Industry, 1942–46. He was appointed CBE in 1923 and knighted in 1943. He was the author of ''Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller'' (1931); ''Hades the Ladies'' (1933); ''The Old Mill'' (1934); ''Down but not Out'' (1935); ''Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again'' (1938); ''Why I Believe in God'' and ''King’s Cross to Waverley'' (1944); ''A Book of Days'' (1951); ''So it Looks to Me'' (1952); and ''A Westminster Lad (Poems)'' (1955). He was the great uncle of Alistair Darling,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Scottish Politics )〕 an Edinburgh MP from 1987 to 2015 who held various ministerial and Cabinet posts in the Labour government from 1997 to 2010. ==References== 〔 * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Darling (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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