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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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Motherwell Constituency – Biography of Anderson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Motherwell Constituency – Biography of Anderson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Motherwell

    CANDIDATE : Anderson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Anderson, born in 1888, and educated at Pulteneytown Academy and Edinburgh University, where he took his M.A., was a school teacher for 30 years. He was a local councillor for 16 years, and during the war acted as convener of civil defence. He has been a member of several Parliamentary delegations abroad. He won Motherwell for the Labour Party in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orkney and Shetland Constituency – Biography of Neven-Spence

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orkney and Shetland Constituency – Biography of Neven-Spence

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Orkney and Shetland

    CANDIDATE : Neven-Spence

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Basil Neven-Spence was born in 1888, and in 1911 graduated from Edinburgh University M.B., Ch.B. Joining the R.A.M.C. in the same year, he was seconded to the Egyptian Army and the Sudan Government. He served throughout the 1914-18 war, mostly in the Middle East, and in 1924 he returned to England as a specialist physician to Aldershot Command. Three years later he retired from the Army, and in 1935 entered Parliament for Orkney and Shetland, and retained the seat in 1945. He was knighted in 1945, and is a vice-Lieutenant of Shetland.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire Constituency – Biography of Woodburn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire Constituency – Biography of Woodburn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire

    CANDIDATE : Woodburn

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Woodburn, appointed Secretary of State for Scotland in 1947, is a native of Edinburgh. He was elected to Parliament in 1939, and during the war – time Government was Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary for Scotland. In 1945 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply. Born in 1890, he went to Heriot Watt College, and subsequently spent 25 years in engineering and ironfounding administration, specializing in languages and costing. Author and lecturer on economics, he has been president of the National Council of Labour Colleges, and secretary of the Scottish Labour Party.

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