Adam Rolland Rainy [SEP] occupation
Adam Rolland Rainy
Adam Rolland Rainy (3 April 1862 – 26 August 1911) was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland who sat in the House of Commons for Kilmarnock Burghs. By profession he was a surgeon oculist.
Life.
He was the son of the Very Rev Robert Rainy DD (1826-1906), Principal of New College, Edinburgh and his wife, Susan Rolland (1835-1905), the granddaughter of Adam Rolland, and was born and raised in Edinburgh.
He is buried in
the Rainy family plot in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh against the southern retaining wall.
His son, also Adam Rolland Rainy (1889-1926), won the Military Cross in the Royal Artillery in the First World War, but died in Natal.
Political career.
In 1900 Rainy embarked on a political career when he stood for parliament at the 1900 General Election. He had been selected as Liberal Party candidate for the marginal Conservative seat of Kilmarnock Burghs. Against the background of the Second Boer War, the