Andrew Dryburgh Provand (23 March 1838 – 18 July 1915)
was a Scottish merchant strongly linked to
Manchester
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; he was also a
Liberal Party
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politician who served as the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown
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from 1886 to 1900.
Background
Provand was the son of George Provand, a Glasgow merchant and his wife Ann Reid Dryburgh. He never married.
Career
He won the seat in
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
, but lost it fourteen years later at the
1900 general election to future
Prime Minister
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,
Bonar Law. He unsuccessfully contested the same seat again in
1906
Events
January–February
* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coa