Tag: 1950 General Election

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Galloway

CANDIDATE : McKie

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. McKie is a member of one of the t oldest families in Gallo-way, who received land from King Robert the Bruce more than 600 years ago. His grandfather and great grandfather both represented the constituency, and Mr. McKie has held it since 1931. Born in 1898, he was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He is a landowner and a bachelor.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rutherglen

CANDIDATE : Brooman-White

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. Brooman-White is a journalist and took an honours degree in economics and modern languages at Cambridge. He served in the war and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. A former secretary to Sir Archibald Cochrane, Unionist M.P. for Dunbartonshire, of which Mr. Brooman-White is a native, he was for a year in the diplomatic service at the British Embassy in Turkey.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Wilson established himself a few years ago as a market gardener in Blairgowrie. Aged about 26, he is a Bachelor of Science, and during the war was in the War Department as a ” back room boy.”

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Lothian

CANDIDATE : Borrowman

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Borrowman is 32 and a native of Blackridge, West Lothian. A railway worker, he was appointed full-time organizer for the Communist Party two years ago. In 1947 he led a deputation to the House of Commons to press for the establishment of new industries in the county. He unsuccessfully contested a local municipal election.

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