Gulland entered Parliament as
Member for
Dumfries Burghs at the
1906 general election. He was a junior
Lord of the Treasury from 1909 until 1915, when he was promoted to
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) upon the unexpected death of
Percy Illingworth. However, the Coalition Government that formed in May resulted in his sharing the post with the
Conservative Lord Edmund Talbot until
Asquith's Liberals left the government in 1916. He was made a
Privy Counsellor in 1917. When his constituency was abolished in 1918, he contested
Dumfriesshire, but was defeated by
William Murray. ==Personal life and death==