1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caithness and Sutherland Constituency – Biography of Sinclair

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Caithness and Sutherland

CANDIDATE : Sinclair

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Archibald Sinclair was Secretary of State for Air during the war. He is a former Secretary of State for Scotland and after 23 years in Parliament, lost his membership for this division in 1945, when he was Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons. Born in 1890, he went to Eton and Sandhurst, and he is Hon. LL.D. of Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities. He entered the Army in 1910, and was personal military secretary to Mr. Churchill when Secretary of State for War, 1919-21, and his private secretary at the Colonial Office in 1921-22. He is Lord Lieutenant of Caithness and has been Lord Rector of Glasgow University.

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