1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Wight Constituency – Biography of Macdonald

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Wight

CANDIDATE : Macdonald

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Peter Macdonald has sat for this division since 1924. Born in Nova Scotia in 1895, he was educated at Dal-housie College, Canada, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served with the forces in both wars. During his membership of the House of Commons he founded, a.id was chairman for 20 years of the Conservative Parliamentary Imperial Affairs Committee ; member of the Select Committee on Estimates for the past 20 years ; a member of many other committees and of Parliamentary delegations to foreign countries.

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