1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee West Constituency – Biography of Scrymgeour-Wedderburn

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dundee West

CANDIDATE : Scrymgeour-Wedderburn

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. Scrymgeour-Wedderburn is 47, stands 6ft. 4in. in height, and is Hereditary Standard-Bearer of Scotland. Educated at Oxford, he was president of the Union. Elected for West Renfrew in 1931, he was Under-Secretary for Scotland from 1936 to 1939. Rejoining The Black Watch on the outbreak of war, he was on General Eisenhower’s staff for the final attack on Germany. He lost his seat in Parliament in 1945. He farms an estate at Birkhill, Fife.

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