1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Berwickshire and East Lothian Constituency – Biography of Anstruther-Gray

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Berwickshire and East Lothian

CANDIDATE : Anstruther-Gray

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. J. Anstruther-Gray sat in Parliament from 1931 to 1945 as member for North Lanark and has held the posts of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary for Overseas Trade, and Assistant Postmaster-General. Born in 1905, a son of the late Colonel W. Anstruther-Gray, M.P., he was educated at Eton and Oxford and took a commission in the Coldstream Guards. He served in North Africa, France, and Germany with the Guards and the Lothians and Border Horse.

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