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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee East Constituency – Biography of Henderson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee East Constituency – Biography of Henderson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dundee East

    CANDIDATE : Henderson

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Henderson, who was born in Kirkcaldy in 1905, fought Dunfermline as a Liberal National in 1945. Educated at Kirkcaldy, Heidelbe?g, and Leipzig, he was a member of KJrkcaldy Town Council at 23. He has been chairman of the Scottish League of Young Liberals and the Kirkcaldy Liberal Association, but left politics in 1934 for 10 years. He is governing director of a Kirkcaldy firm of furniture manufacturers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Leith Constituency – Biography of Mekie

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Leith Constituency – Biography of Mekie

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Leith

    CANDIDATE : Mekie

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. C. Mekie, a solicitor, aged 42, is the son of a Leith head master and was educated at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University. He specialized in the law governing electiicity supply, and joined Edmundson’s group of electrical power companies, becoming secretary and director of 15 concerns. He left the industry on nationalization and is now director of companies mainly in the chemical and allied industries.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Bridgeton Constituency – Biography of Duncan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Bridgeton Constituency – Biography of Duncan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Bridgeton

    CANDIDATE : Duncan

    PARTY : I.L.P.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Duncan, one of two Glasgow candidates still faithful to the once more active LL.P, Party, has played a prominent part in municipal politics for many years.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Govan Constituency – Biography of Fraser

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Govan Constituency – Biography of Fraser

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Govan

    CANDIDATE : Fraser

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. L. Fraser, aged 21, but unable to vote himself, was the youngest Liberal candidate, and probably the youngest in the election. He is assistant secretary of Glasgow University Liberal Club, and is in his final year as an arts student.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Scotstoun Constituency – Biography of Young

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Scotstoun Constituency – Biography of Young

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Scotstoun

    CANDIDATE : Young

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Arthur Young, who represented the Partick division from 1935 to the dissolution, is a director of a Glasgow firm of carpet manufacturers. He was the Scottish Conservative Whip in 1942, and then successively a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. From 1941 to 1949 he was a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. He is a keen yachtsman and has raced in America.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenock Constituency – Biography of McNeil

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenock Constituency – Biography of McNeil

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Greenock

    CANDIDATE : McNeil

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Hector McNeil made two unsuccessful attempts to enter Parliament before being elected unopposed in this division at a by-election in 1941. He was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport in 1942, and in 1945 was appointed Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and later Minister of State, in which capacity he represented Great Britain at a number of important international proceedings, and frequently deputized for Mr. Ernest Bevin. Born in 1910 and educated at Glasgow University, he became a journalist on the staff of a Scottish national newspaper.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeenshire West Constituency – Biography of Spence

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeenshire West Constituency – Biography of Spence

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeenshire West

    CANDIDATE : Spence

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. R. Spence is managing partner in a firm of woollen manufacturers and a director of other companies. He is 52 and served with the Royal Flying Corps in the 1914-18 war. In 1939 he formed and commanded 151 Squadron, Air Defence Cadet Corps, later the A.T.C., and resigned his commission as wing commander in 1945 on giving up command of the north-east area, A.T.C. He was elected for Central Aberdeenshire in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ayrshire Central Constituency – Biography of Manuel

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ayrshire Central Constituency – Biography of Manuel

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ayrshire Central

    CANDIDATE : Manuel

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. C. Manuel, a member of Ayr County Council, has been active in local government for ?any years. He is an engine driver and a prominent member of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. Born in 1901, he is an executive member of the Scottish Housing and Town Planning Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caithness and Sutherland Constituency – Biography of Sinclair

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caithness and Sutherland Constituency – Biography of Sinclair

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Caithness and Sutherland

    CANDIDATE : Sinclair

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Archibald Sinclair was Secretary of State for Air during the war. He is a former Secretary of State for Scotland and after 23 years in Parliament, lost his membership for this division in 1945, when he was Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons. Born in 1890, he went to Eton and Sandhurst, and he is Hon. LL.D. of Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities. He entered the Army in 1910, and was personal military secretary to Mr. Churchill when Secretary of State for War, 1919-21, and his private secretary at the Colonial Office in 1921-22. He is Lord Lieutenant of Caithness and has been Lord Rector of Glasgow University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Inverness Constituency – Biography of Douglas-Hamilton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Inverness Constituency – Biography of Douglas-Hamilton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Inverness

    CANDIDATE : Douglas-Hamilton

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, born in 1909, is a brother of the Duke of Hamilton. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1939 to 1945, latterly as wing commander, and won the D.F.C. In 1945 he was commandant of the A.T.C. in Scotland. He is chairman of the Outdoor Training Committee of the Central Council of Physical Recreation (Scotland) and mountaineer.

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