1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Gilzean

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Gilzean

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Gilzean, a retired printer, aged 71, won the seat in 1945. He served on Edinburgh Town Council for 21 years as a leading member of the Labour Party, and gave much time to housing and slum clearance and is a deputy lieutenant of the city. Wounded in the 1914-18 war, he undertook duties on the local war pensions committee.

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