1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Solihull Constituency – Biography of Lindsay

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Solihull

CANDIDATE : Lindsay

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Martin Lindsay, who was elected for the division in 1945, is an author and director of companies. During the war he served in Norway and North-West Europe, and was wounded, twice mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the D.S.O. as a battalion commander. Previously he had undertaken extensive explorations in Central Africa and the Arctic. He is chairman of the Midland Union of Conservative Associations. Born in 1905, he was educated at Wellington and Sandhurst.

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