1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banffshire Constituency – Biography of Lethem

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banffshire

CANDIDATE : Lethem

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Gordon Lethem, now farming in Esk-dailemuir, Dumfriesshire, was educated at Edinburgh and Grenoble Universities, and at s?hools of Oriental languages in Paris and London, and is a barrister. He was the first administrator of the German Cameroons after the 1914-18 war and was successively Governor of the Seychelles, the Leeward Islands, and British Guiana. He took part in the negotiations with America for the destroyers-for-air bases deal. He is a K.C.M.G. and a Knight of the Order of St. John.

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