British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Pollok Constituency – Biography of Galbraith

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Pollok

CANDIDATE : Galbraith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. T. D. Galbraith, who was joint Under-Secretary for Scotland in 1945, was elected in 1940. Born in 1891, he was educated at Glasgow University and the R.N. Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, served in the 1914-18 war and at the R.N. Staff College, Greenwich, retiring in 1922. In the last war he was on the staff of the Scottish naval command. He is a partner in a Glasgow firm of accountants, and was a member of Glasgow Corporation for seven years?


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