Mexborough and Swinton Times November 2, 1928

Candidate for Pollock, Glasgow

As announced last week, the Rev, Richard Lee. M.A., of Glasgow, is to contest the Pollok Division of Glasgow as Labour candidate against the Secretary for Scotland, Sir John, Gilmour.

The Rev. Richard Lee is well known to the older generation in this town. He is the second son of the late Mr. Abraham Lee, who was an urban and county councillor, and a member of the old Mexborough School Board for many years.

Mr. Richard Lee was born in Mexborough in 1872, and was educated in the town and afterwards at Sheffield Central School, and then by private study took a, London B.A., and became a master at the Collegiate School at Wakefield.

He studied for the ministry at the Lancaster independent College, Manchester, and became a Congregational pastor at Blyth, Northumberland, but transferred to the Unitarian ministry, and has served pastorates at Bury, Dundee, and for the last six years at Glasgow, where he is a Labour member of the Parish Council or, as we should call it, the City Council.                During the war, in addition to his ministerial duties at Bury, he was on, the staff of the Bury Grammar School.

He has been deeply interested in politics from early manhood, and has been connected with the Independent Labour Party for many years. His father was an equally fervent and lifelong Liberal. Before accepting the invitation to contest Pollok, he received and was obliged to decline a similar invitation to contest Dumfries.