1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banffshire Constituency – Biography of Duthie

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banffshire

CANDIDATE : Duthie

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Duthie, elected for the constituency in 1945, is a Banff-shire man and was born in a fishing village and trained in a Buckie bank. After living in Canada for some years, he served in the 1914-18 war in The Gordon Highlanders and the Canadian Army. He was at the Ministry of Food in an administrative capacity in the last war and was deputy chief of the Unrra organization in Greece.

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