British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire East Constituency – Biography of Whitelaw

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dunbartonshire East

CANDIDATE : Whitelaw

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. S. I. Whitelaw, a landowner and farmer, aged 32, was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a major in the Scots Guards during the war and gained the M.C. and was mentioned in dispatches for services in Normandy. He was a Cambridge golfing Blue in 1938-39.


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