1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh East Constituency – Biography of Wheatley

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh East

CANDIDATE : Wheatley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Wheatley, K.C., the Lord Advocate, entered the House in 1947 when Mr. G. R. Thomson, then Lord Advocate, went to the Scottish Bench. First appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland, he became Lord Advocate a few months later. He was born in 1908, and is a nephew of the late Mr. John Wheatley. Minister of Health in the first Labour Government. Educated at St. Aloysius College, Glasgow, Mount St. Mary’s College, Chesterfield, and Glasgow University, he was called to the Scottish Bar, 1932, appointed an advocate-depute, 1945, and K.C., 1947.

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