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 : Western Isles

CANDIDATE : Sinclair

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Wg. Cdr. H. McD. Sinclair contested the division in 1945. Born in Quebec, he took an M.A. degree at Edinburgh University and gained other academic honours in Canada and the United States. An R.F.C. pil?t in the 1914-18 war, he was a wing commander in the Canadian Air Force in the late war. He was Canadian representative on the European Committee of Unrra, and is joint hon. treasurer of the Liberal International.

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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 : Lanarkshire North

CANDIDATE : Nelson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. F. B. Nelson is 22 and a printer’ He was educated at Arnold School, Blackpool, and is a manager in Glasgow.

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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 : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Hughes was born in 1911, and is a building contractor. For many years he has been a member of Dundee City Council, and was the unsuccessful Labour candidate in Perth and Kinross in 1945. Recently he was appointed chairman of the Regional Hospitals Board. When war broke out he was appointed A.R.P. controller for his native Dundee, and was awarded the O.B.E. for his services. He subsequently went into the Army and rose to the rank of captain.

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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 : Younger

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McE. Younger was born in 1905, and is a managing director. He was in the Territorial Army and served throughout the last war. He was in the siege of Tobruk, and won the D.S.O., and with the Eighth Army during the advance from El Alamein to Tunis ; he also commanded the 14th L.A.A. Regiment in the Salerno landings. In 1948 he was elected president of the West Lothian Junior Unionist Association.

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