1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeenshire East Constituency – Biography of Boothby

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeenshire East

CANDIDATE : Boothby

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Robert Boothby has been member for the constituency since 1924. He was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Churchill when the latter was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1926 to 1929, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food in the early part of the last war. He has been a conspicuous backbench speaker in debates on financial and economic affairs and a champion of the virtues of herring as a food. Born in 1900, he was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.

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