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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Gilzean

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Gilzean

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Central

    CANDIDATE : Gilzean

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Gilzean, a retired printer, aged 71, won the seat in 1945. He served on Edinburgh Town Council for 21 years as a leading member of the Labour Party, and gave much time to housing and slum clearance and is a deputy lieutenant of the city. Wounded in the 1914-18 war, he undertook duties on the local war pensions committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Pentlands Constituency – Biography of Hope

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Pentlands Constituency – Biography of Hope

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Pentlands

    CANDIDATE : Hope

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lord John Hope, member for the old North Midlothian and Peebles division, is 35 and younger twin son of the Marquess of Linlith-gow. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he served in the war at Narvik, Salerno, and Cassino, and was on the planning staff for the Anzio landing. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Guards.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Central Constituency – Biography of McInnes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Central Constituency – Biography of McInnes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Central

    CANDIDATE : McInnes

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. McInnes is leader of the Labour group in Glasgow Corporation, of which he has been a member since 1933. Formerly in the railway service, he later started in business as a retail tobacconist. He was commandant of the National Fire Service in Glasgow and adjacent counties during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Kelvingrove Constituency – Biography of Ranger

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Kelvingrove Constituency – Biography of Ranger

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Kelvingrove

    CANDIDATE : Ranger

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. J. Ranger is a Glasgow business man who lives in the division and has taken a keen interest in political affairs locally.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of Forman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of Forman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Springburn

    CANDIDATE : Forman

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. C. Forman, an insurance agent, was born in 1884 and had a secondary school education. He was a member of Glasgow Town Council for 18 years until he became M.P. for Spring-burn in 1945. He is chairman of Glasgow Cooperative Conference Association and has been active in the Co-operative movement for 40 years.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paisley Constituency – Biography of Johnston

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paisley Constituency – Biography of Johnston

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paisley

    CANDIDATE : Johnston

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. H. Johnston, K.C., appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1947, two days after becoming a K.C., did not enter Parliament until the next year, when he won Paisley at a by-election. Born in 1907, he was educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities and called to the English Bar in 1931 and to the Scottish Bar a year later. He is an authority on the Workmen’s Compensation Acts. In the last war he served with the 51st Division as a lieutenant-colonel.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Angus Constituency – Biography of Duncan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Angus 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 : South Angus

    CANDIDATE : Duncan

    PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. J. A. L. Duncan was Conservative M.P. for North Kensington from 1931 to 1945. For several years he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Leslie Burgin as Minister of Transport and Minister of Supply. He was a member of the L.C.C. from 1925 to 1928. Educated at Marl borough, he served in both wars with the Scots Guards. He is aged 50.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Ayrshire Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Ayrshire Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : South Ayrshire

    CANDIDATE : Hughes

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Emrys Hughes won this division in 1946. Son of a former Tony-pandy minister, he was born in 1894, and in 1924 married a daughter of the late Keir Hardie. A journalist, he has travelled a good deal in Europe, including Russia. He has also had long experience in local government, specializing in housing questions.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of McKinlay

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of McKinlay

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dunbartonshire West

    CANDIDATE : McKinlay

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. S. McKinlay was M.P. for the Partick division of Glasgow in 1929-31, and Dunbarton from 1941 to the dissolution. Formerly a woodworker and trade union organizer in the Clyde shipyards, he has been a prominent member of Glasgow Corporation and Convener of the Housing Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Western Isles Constituency – Biography of Murray

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Western Isles Constituency – Biography of Murray

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Western Isles

    CANDIDATE : Murray

    PARTY : Scot. Home Rule

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Murray, born in 1900, took a B.Sc in engineering at Glasgow University, later studied steel making in Germany, was an engineer in Australia, and a steel salesman in the United States and South America. Now an industrial journalist, he is a member of the Committee of the Scottish Convention, and played a part in the launching of the latest Covenant.

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