1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Enfield West Constituency – Biography of MacLeod

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Enfield West

CANDIDATE : MacLeod

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ian MacLeod is head of the Home Affairs Department of the Conservative Central Office. An honours B.A. of Cambridge, he was reading for the Bar when the war broke out, and he volunteered as a private. He was commissioned in May, 1940, and was wounded in the Battle °f France. Later he was promoted major, and joined Field-Marshal Planning staff for the Normandy campaigh. He was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. to the 50th Division, and landed with them on D Day.

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