1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Moss Side Constituency – Biography of Horsbrugh

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Moss Side

CANDIDATE : Horsbrugh

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss F. Horsbrugh represented Dundee in Parliament for 14 years and was unseated in 1945. Educated at Lans-downe House, Edinburgh, and St. Hilda’s, Folkestone, she represented Britain on the League of Nations from 1933 to 1936. In 1938 she created Parliamentary history by being the first woman to move the Address in reply to the King’s Speech. Appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in 1939, she occupied that position until the end of the Coalition Government. In the ” caretaker ” Government she was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food. After her defeat at Midlothian and Peebles in this Election she was adopted for Moss Side.

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