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Sir Thomas Drummond Shiels MC MB ChB (7 August 1881 – 1 January 1953) was a Scottish Labour politician.
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Thomas Drummond Shiels ( - 1er janvier 1953) est un homme politique travailliste écossais . Biographie. Fils de James Drummond Shiels, photographe, et d'Agnès Campbell d' Édimbourg, il fait ses études à l' Université d'Édimbourg où il obtient son diplôme MB ChB. Avant d'obtenir son diplôme de médecine, il travaille comme photographe à Édimbourg 1 .
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The commissioners were four British parliamentarians appointed by Sydney Webb, the first Labour Secretary of State for the Colonies on 13 November 1927. Their task was to draft a new constitution for Sri Lanka that would not only satisfy the aspirations of all the groups within the island, including British plantation owners, but also enable Sri La...
The Donoughmore Commission arrived in Sri Lanka in 1927 and spent four months interviewing islanders. They held 34 sittings and interviewed 140 people. The Commissioners listened to a plea for female suffragefor educated women, and granted suffrage to all women aged 21 in Sri Lanka – at a time when British suffragettes were still fighting to have t...
Having noted that the island was riven by power struggles between competing ethnic groups, it devised a system of executive committees that would control all government departments. It rejected the principle of communal representation. Every parliamentarian in Sri Lanka would sit on one of these committees, ensuring that no one ethnic group could c...
The greatest misgiving of many of the Ceylonese leaders, both Sinhalese and Tamil, was the recommendation of universal franchise by DC. Jane Russell in her detailed study states that (p. 16) "Ponnambalam Ramnathan and most of the 'conservatives' believed and argued that the giving of the vote to the non-vellala castes and to women was not only a gr...
Author Shyam Selvadurai offers a fictionalized account of the Donoughmore Commission in his novel Cinnamon Gardens.
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Sir (Thomas) Drummond Shiels MC (7 August 1881 – 1 January 1953) was a Scottish Labour politician. The son of James Drummond Shiels and Agnes Campbell of Edinburgh, he was educated at Edinburgh University where he graduated MB ChB. He was commissioned into the Royal Scots in 1915 and served in...
Obituary: Sir T. DRUMMOND SHIELS, M.C., M.B., Ch.B - PMC. Journal List. Br Med J. v.1 (4803); 1953 Jan 24. PMC2015340. As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health.
