1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orkney and Shetland Constituency – Biography of Grimond

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Orkney and Shetland

CANDIDATE : Grimond

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Grimond, who is 36, is the son-in-law of Lady Violet Bonham Carter. He is a scholar of Balliol, having won there the Brackenbury History Scholarship. He also took 1st class Honours in ” Modern Greats.” He is a barrister. He reached the rank of major during the war and then worked with Unrra, leaving that organization to become secretary to the Scottish National Trust.

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