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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Gellatly

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Gellatly

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Central

    CANDIDATE : Gellatly

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. L. Gellatly, a retired Regular officer, has had 21 years’ service with the Gordon Highlanders and R.A.F. Contesting South Midlothian and Peebles in 1945, he lost his deposit. At the end of the last war, he served with Church of Scotland canteens in Italy and Austria, and is a welfare supervisor for the Y.M.C.A. in Fife, the Lothians, and Border counties, having the care of European voluntary workers. He farms near Edinburgh.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh South Constituency – Biography of Earsman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh South Constituency – Biography of Earsman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh South

    CANDIDATE : Earsman

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. P. Earsman is leader of the Labour group in the city council, and was president of the Scottish Council of the Labour Party, 1948. He claims to be the only Briton to have served in the Red Army. He was an engineer on oil well development and served as A.D.C. to Trotsky for 18 months. On leaving Russia he received a gold medal from Trotsky in appreciation of his services to the country. For many years since his return he has been a severe critic of Soviet policy.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Central Constituency – Biography of Aldred

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Central Constituency – Biography of Aldred

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Central

    CANDIDATE : Aldred

    PARTY : Ind. Soc.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Aldred, a Left-wing propagandist, has previously contested elections in the Central, Camlachie, and Bridgeton divisions. He has frequently sought municipal honours in Glasgow without success.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Maryhill Constituency – Biography of Hannan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Maryhill Constituency – Biography of Hannan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Maryhill

    CANDIDATE : Hannan

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Hannan, former insurance agent and Glasgow town councillor, was elected in 1945. He is a native of Glasgow, lives in the constituency, and has been a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury since 1946. He was a member of Glasgow City Council, and his special interests have been national insurance, housing, food, and fuel and power. He is 44.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of Campbell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of Campbell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Springburn

    CANDIDATE : Campbell

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. W. Campbell, 45 years old, is a master grocer. He is vice-chairman of the Glasgow Grocers’ and Provision M?rchants” Association and is convener of the association’s education committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paisley Constituency – Biography of Shaw

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paisley Constituency – Biography of Shaw

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paisley

    CANDIDATE : Shaw

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. V. M. Shaw aged 29, is president of the Scottish executive of the British Export Trade Research Organization. He served as a captain with The King’s Own Scottish Borderers during the war and acted as liaison officer for the United States Army Air Force. He got his half-blue for golf at Oxford University, where he was an honours graduate in philosophy, politics, and economics.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Argyll Constituency – Biography of McCallum

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Argyll Constituency – Biography of McCallum

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Argyll

    CANDIDATE : McCallum

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. D. McCallum, born in 1888, entered the Army as a career and served throughout the 1914-18 war. Later he served in Syria, and was attached to the British Legation at Peking and Sofia and to the Embassy in Cairo. In the last war he served on General Wavell’s staff at G.H.Q., Middle East, Cairo. He is interested in farming and in raising pedigree Highland cattle. He has been a member for Argyll since 1940.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banffshire Constituency – Biography of Duthie

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banffshire Constituency – Biography of Duthie

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banffshire

    CANDIDATE : Duthie

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. S. Duthie, elected for the constituency in 1945, is a Banff-shire man and was born in a fishing village and trained in a Buckie bank. After living in Canada for some years, he served in the 1914-18 war in The Gordon Highlanders and the Canadian Army. He was at the Ministry of Food in an administrative capacity in the last war and was deputy chief of the Unrra organization in Greece.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of Hart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of Hart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dunbartonshire West

    CANDIDATE : Hart

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Hart, aged 38, formerly a welder in a Clyde shipyard and convener of shop stewards in the yard, has been a member of the Communist Party since its inception, and has been a party organizer in Scotland and Sheffield. He is a former member of the Clyde-bank Town Council, and is industrial organizer in London for the Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Galloway Constituency – Biography of Thompson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Galloway Constituency – Biography of Thompson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Galloway

    CANDIDATE : Thompson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. F. Thompson, aged 25, and an M.A. of Edinburgh, is taking an honours course in economics and political philosophy there. He served in the forces for five years, taking part in the Italian campaign, and later was warden of an agricultural hostel in Berwickshire.

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