| Maurice Corry | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | TD |
| Office: | Member of the Scottish Parliament for West Scotland |
| Term Start: | 6 May 2016 |
| Term End: | 5 May 2021 |
| Birth Place: | Helensburgh, Scotland |
| Party: | Scottish Conservative Party |
Maurice Charles Steuart-Corry TD is a Scottish Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region from the 2016 Scottish Parliament election until the 2021 election. He is currently the Provost of Argyll & Bute.
Corry joined the British Army in 1972 serving initially with the 51st Highland Volunteers part of the Territorial Army.[1] Captain Corry was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1984.,[2] a first clasp to the medal in February 1994[3] and a second clasp in 1997[4] He was promoted to major in June 1984.[5] Major Corry was transferred to the Black Watch in February 1995.[6] He retired from the Royal Regiment of Scotland in September 2009.[7]
Corry was elected to the Argyll and Bute council, representing Lomond North in 2012.[8]
In 2016, Corry stood for the Scottish Parliament as the Conservative candidate for Dumbarton where he came third, then was elected from the West Scotland regional list.[9] Corry sat on the Parliament's Public Petitions Committee.[10] After his election to the Scottish Parliament he also continued in his position as a local councillor.[11] He is the Conservative's spokesperson for veterans' affairs.[12] In May 2016 in a Holyrood EU Referendum debate, Corry voted to back the case to leave the European Union. He later explained he had pressed the wrong button during the vote.[13]
At the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, Corry contested the Dumbarton constituency, a Labour–SNP marginal where he came a distant third with 8.3% of the votes.[14] He was placed eighth on the Conservative list for West Scotland,[15] so he did not win one of the region's three lists seats.[16] Corry's low placement on the list followed his omission from a list of endorsements by a vetting committee set up by Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Conservatives in the Scottish Parliament.[17]
In the 2022 Council Election, he was returned once again to Argyll & Bute as a member for Lomond North, and was appointed Provost by the administration on 18 May 2022.[18] [19]