Roland Muirhead

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Roland Eugene Muirhead (24 July 1868–2 August 1964) was a Scottish politician.

Born in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland, Roland was a member of the Young Scots' Society but left in 1914 due to pacifist objections to Liberal Party support for Britain's involvement in the First World War. He became a member of the Independent Labour Party from 1918 but later left, becoming first chairman of the National Party of Scotland. He was on the left of the Scottish National Party following its creation from the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party and served as president 1936 to 1950. He opposed conscription during the Second World War.

He died in 1964 and was buried at his home town of Lochwinnoch.

References

"Muirhead, Roland Eugene". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40350. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Kemp, Arnold, "Roland Muirhead's fight for a Scottish Parliament", .

Party political offices
Preceded by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham	President of the Scottish National Party 1936–1950	Succeeded by Tom Gibson

v t e Scottish National Party (SNP)

Leaders	MacEwan Gibb Power Young Watson McIntyre Halliday Donaldson Wolfe Wilson Swinney Salmond

Deputy Leaders	Wolfe Leslie Henderson Wilson MacDonald Henderson Fairlie Ewing Salmond Morgan Sillars Macartney Swinney Cunningham Sturgeon

Presidents	Graham Muirhead Gibson McIntyre Wolfe Stewart Ewing Hudghton

Members of the Scottish Parliament	Adam Adamson Allan Allard Beattie Biagi Brodie Brown Burgess A Campbell R Campbell Coffey Constance Crawford Cunningham Dey Don Doris Dornan Eadie A Ewing F Ewing Fabiani Finnie FitzPatrick K Gibson R Gibson Grahame Hepburn Hyslop Ingram Keir Kidd Lochhead Lyle MacAskill A MacDonald G MacDonald Mackay MacKenzie Mason Matheson Maxwell McAlpine M McDonald McKelvie A McLeod F McLeod McMillan Neil Paterson Robertson Robison Russell Salmond Stevenson Stewart Sturgeon Swinney Thompson Torrance Urquhart Watt Wheelhouse White Wilson Yousaf

Members of the UK Parliament	Hosie MacNeil Robertson Weir Whiteford Wishart

Members of the European Parliament	Hudghton Smith

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Name	Muirhead, Roland Eugene
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Date of birth	1868
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Date of death	1964
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