1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caithness and Sutherland Constituency – Biography of Robertson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Caithness and Sutherland

CANDIDATE : Robertson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir David Robertson, member for Streatham from 1939, was adopted for this constituency after the local Unionist Association had withdrawn support for the sitting member, Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower. Born 60 years ago in Glasgow, he was educated at Allan Glen’s Schools and Glasgow University. He served in the Ministry of Food at the end of the first war and was chief accountant to the Ministry at the Paris Peace Conference. Afterwards he became managing director of fish and cold storage companies.

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