British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeen North Constituency – Biography of Tennant

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeen North

CANDIDATE : Tennant

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Tennant, a barrister, aged 42, is the younger son of the late Mr. H. J. Tennant, who was elected M.P. for Berwickshire in 1894 and sat in Parliament for some 24 years, holding several Ministerial offices during the 1914-18 war. Mr. Tennant served in Hongkong in 1940 and later saw service with the Scots Guards in North-West Europe. After the war he was in the legal division of the military government in Germany with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.


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