1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Leith Constituency – Biography of Hoy

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Leith

CANDIDATE : Hoy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Hoy, who won the seat from Mr. Ernest Brown in 1945, is an interior decorator, aged 41, who went to an elementary school and Causewayside and Sciennes, Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Corps of Signals and served with the Eighth Army in Africa and the B.L.A. in Europe. He has served as Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Under-Secretaiy of State for War. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation to Germany.

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