Captain Walter Travers Scott-Elliot was a British company director and politician who served one term as a Member of Parliament.
13 Facts About Walter Scott-Elliot
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Walter Scott-Elliot is remembered for the cause of his death: he and his wife were both murdered by Archibald Hall, whom they had hired as a butler.
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Walter Scott-Elliot fought in the Coldstream Guards during the First World War, until 1919.
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At the 1945 general election, Walter Scott-Elliot was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Accrington.
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Walter Scott-Elliot's background made him an unlikely recruit for the Labour Party, although he was sincere in his belief that socialist planning was best for business.
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Walter Scott-Elliot served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Financial Secretaries to the War Office, successively Frederick Bellenger and John Freeman, from 1946 to 1947.
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Walter Scott-Elliot disagreed with the government's policy of nationalising the steel industry, although not to nationalisation in general, and he did not vote against the whip.
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When Thomas left the Labour Party over opposition to steel nationalisation, the Accrington Trades and Labour Party repudiated the letter, and Walter Scott-Elliot announced that he would not fight the next election.
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Walter Scott-Elliot had a London flat at Richmond Court on Sloane Street.
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In 1977, Walter Scott-Elliot engaged a new butler called Archibald Hall.
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Unknown to Walter Scott-Elliot, Hall was a thief and a murderer.
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When Dorothy Walter Scott-Elliot interrupted Hall and his accomplice discussing their burglary plans, they suffocated her.
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Mrs Scott-Elliot was buried in Perthshire, while Walter Scott-Elliot was driven to Guisachen, near Inverness, where he was throttled with a scarf, beaten over the head with a spade, and then buried in the forest.