1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire Constituency – Biography of Scott

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

CANDIDATE : Scott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lord William Scott, who was born in 1896, is the second son of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the Army as a career. While serving with a cavalry regiment in the 1914-18 war he was awarded the M.C., and in the last war he was military secretary to Field-Marshal Lord Alexander. He was elected M.P. for Roxburgh and Selkirk in 1935.

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