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Mr Rennie Smith is a former MP for Penistone.

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Former MP for Penistone

Entered the House of Commons on 29 October 1924 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 7 October 1931 — General election

Previous MPs in this constituency

• William Pringle
• William Gillis
• Sydney Arnold

Future MPs in this constituency

• Clifford Glossop
• Henry McGhee
• John Mendelson
• Allen McKay

Recent appearances

• Civil Estimates, 1931.: India Office. 9 Jul 1931

  I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Chelsea (Sir S. Hoare) is not looking to me for a reply. May I say, however, that I have followed the speeches which he has made in public since he became a Member of the Indian Round Table Conference Committee and I have admired the way in which he has kept strictly to the undertakings, into which he and his party have entered in regard...

• Orders of the Day — Class I. Treasury and Subordinate Departments. 29 Jun 1931

  When the right hon. and gallant Member for Burton (Colonel Gretton) began his speech, I thought that he was really going to shock the Committee out of the complacency into which he said it had fallen, but I can imagine no more effective method than his speech of fastening the stranglehold of complacency upon us. He says, in effect, that we are all right in this matter of Disarmament, and it...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Sierra Leone (Births and Deaths). 20 May 1931

  21. asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies the rate of births and deaths for 1930 or the last available year among the population of Sierra Leone?

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