serviceyears branch allegiance unit party awards battles rank image article_title name restingplace alma_mater
1911 - 1927 britisharmyflag2.svg british army united kingdom royal army medical corps unionist party 20px of the nile 20px ribbon of the military cross & ribbon nbsp ; military cross 20px ribbon of the allied victory bar medal & nbsp ; victory medal 20px ribbon of the for british war medal & nbsp ; british war medal knight & nbsp ; order world war i major basil neven-spence . jpg basil neven-spence
 sir basil neven-spence uyea chapel cemetery , uyea , unst university of edinburgh
basil neven-spence

sir basil hamilton hebden neven-spence -lrb- 12 june 1888 -- 13 september 1974 -rrb- was a scottish unionist party politician and military physician .
neven-spence came from a prominent landowning family in the shetland islands .
neven-spence graduated from edinburgh university in 1911 .
he served with the royal army medical corps , seconded to help the egyptian army and government of sudan , and in the first world war , mainly in the middle east .
he received the order of the nile for his role in the darfur expedition .
following the war he organised a campaign to treat sleeping sickness in darfur .
he returned to edinburgh university to study for an m.d. , before moving to aldershot in 1924 to work as a specialist physician to the british army .
he retired from the army in 1927 with the rank of major .
neven-spence 's family had owned property in shetland for several generations and he became vice-convenor of zetland county council .
neven-spence first contested the orkney and shetland constituency in 1929 , stepping down as candidate ahead of the 1931 election .
he won in 1935 and served as member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- until losing at the 1950 general election to jo grimond .
he was knighted in 1945 and served as a vice-lieutenant of scotland .
he once lived on the island of uyea .
