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 : Cowan
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss E. Cowan is an honours graduate of Glasgow University and lives in the Muirend district of the city. She has been working in England as a tutor in adult education.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Tradeston
CANDIDATE : Rankin
PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Rankin, a teacher, is 60 and joined the Labour Party in 1915. He fought the Pollok seat three times and was elected for Tradeston in 1945. Educated at Glasgow University, he has been lecturer and propagandist for the Scottish Labour College. He is a keen cooperator, and was once chairman of Glasgow I.L.P.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs
CANDIDATE : Forbes
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lt.-Col. W. Forbes, unsuccessful in the 1948 by-election, was born in 1902, educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and commissioned in the Coldstream Guards. He was captured by the Italians at Tobruk in 1942, but escaped and was free for a fortnight before falling into German hands. He remained a prisoner of war until 1945. He is a member of Stirling County Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Argyll
CANDIDATE : Holt
PARTY : Scot. Home Rule
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. M. S. MacP. Holt was born in Madras where her father was principal of Madras College, and first elected-vice-chancellor of Madras University. She worked during the first world war in an aircraft factory, and volunteered to nurse Serbian soldiers in Corsica. She spent a considerable period in Ihe Middle East, and was in Spain when the Civil War broke out.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banffshire
CANDIDATE : Lethem
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir Gordon Lethem, now farming in Esk-dailemuir, Dumfriesshire, was educated at Edinburgh and Grenoble Universities, and at s?hools of Oriental languages in Paris and London, and is a barrister. He was the first administrator of the German Cameroons after the 1914-18 war and was successively Governor of the Seychelles, the Leeward Islands, and British Guiana. He took part in the negotiations with America for the destroyers-for-air bases deal. He is a K.C.M.G. and a Knight of the Order of St. John.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fife East
CANDIDATE : Freeman
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. A. Freeman, aged 21, who lives at Hampstead, was educated in London, France, and Canada, and more recently has been studying at St. Andrew’s University. He is president of the University Liberal Association and on the general council of the Scottish Liberal Party.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bothwell
CANDIDATE : Cadzow
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. N. Cadzow is a native of Bothwell and partner in a Glasgow paint firm. During the war he served in the Royal Navy and was mentioned in dispatches for demolition work at the time of Dunkirk. Later he went to the Admiralty and at the end of the war was at Naples as staff officer (plans) to the naval commander.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Midlothian and Peeblesshire
CANDIDATE : Gilmour
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. W. Gilmour is 45 and a native of Lanarkshire. A member of Peebles Town Council, to which he was elected in 1937, he was at one time a mining surveyor. In the 1945 General Election he was organizer for the Co-operative Party candidates in Dumfriesshire.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Renfrewshire West
CANDIDATE : Maclay
PARTY : Nat. L. & C.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. S. Maclay, who is 45, entered Parliament in 19?0 as member for the former Montrose Burghs constituency, and retained the seat at the 1945 election. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Production in 1945. He is the Leader of the National Liberal Party in the House of Commons. A son of the first Baron Maclay, he is interested in shipping and led the British Merchant Shipping Mission to Washington during the war. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Battersea South
CANDIDATE : Tyers
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lt.-Cmdr. C. Tyers was born in Battersea, and went to Lavender Hill School and Salesian College. After service in the R.N.V.R. in the war he took a hotel in Broadstairs, where he is a member of the urban council. He is a football referee and commanding officer of Sea Cadets at Ramsgate.
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