1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Renton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Renton

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Renton was born in Portobello, and has been a Communist propagandist since his youth. Serving with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, he was captured and sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment, but was released under an exchange scheme. After service in the Royal Artillery in the war, he became Communist Party secretary for South-East Scotland.

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