1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paisley Constituency – Biography of Johnston

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paisley

CANDIDATE : Johnston

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. H. Johnston, K.C., appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1947, two days after becoming a K.C., did not enter Parliament until the next year, when he won Paisley at a by-election. Born in 1907, he was educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities and called to the English Bar in 1931 and to the Scottish Bar a year later. He is an authority on the Workmen’s Compensation Acts. In the last war he served with the 51st Division as a lieutenant-colonel.

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