1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh South Constituency – Biography of Darling

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh South

CANDIDATE : Darling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir William Darling, a former lord-provost and city treasurer of Edinburgh, is proprietor of a drapery store and two bookshops in the city and director of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company. Born in 1885, he went to James Gilles-pie’s School, Daniel Stewart’s School, and Heriot-Watt College. He is the author of several publications, including ” The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller.”

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