1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeen South Constituency – Biography of Tweedsmuir

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Tweedsmuir

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Tweedsmuir was unsuccessful in North Aberdeen in the 1945 election, but a year later won this constituency in a by-election. Her first husband, Sir Arthur Grant, was killed in action with the Grenadier Guards in Normandy, and she married Lord Tweedsmuir in 1948. Born in 1915, Lady Tweedsmuir was educated in England, Germany, and France. She is a governor of the British Film Institute.

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