1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Perth and East Perthshire Constituency – Biography of Gomme-Duncan

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Gomme-Duncan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. A. Gomme-Duncan was born in 1893, and educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School. He served in the 1914-18 war with The Black Watch and The London Scottish, and was awarded the M.C. After the war he served in India with The Black Watch, and was a staff officer, Western Command, Quetta, and then in a similar capacity with Northern Command, York. He retired from the Army in 1937, but served again in the last war, retiring in 1945. In the same year he entered Parliament for Perth and Kinross, and gave particular attention to matters concerning Scottish agriculture.

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