1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Pentlands Constituency – Biography of Hope

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Pentlands

CANDIDATE : Hope

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lord John Hope, member for the old North Midlothian and Peebles division, is 35 and younger twin son of the Marquess of Linlith-gow. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he served in the war at Narvik, Salerno, and Cassino, and was on the planning staff for the Anzio landing. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Guards.

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