1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Finchley Constituency – Biography of McFadyean

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Finchley

CANDIDATE : McFadyean

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Andrew McFadyean, president of the Liberal Party, was born in 1887 and educated at the University College School, London, and University College, Oxford. He is a company director, and serves on several political and educational bodies. He entered the Treasury in 1910 in open competition and was private secretary to a number of leading political figures. He was on a special financial mission to the United States in 1917 ; was Treasury representative at Paris in 1919-20 ; and secretary to the British delegation to the Reparations Commission, and from 1922 general secretary to the Commission. For aix years, from 1924, he was Commissioner of controlled revenues in Berlin. He was knighted in 1925. He is joint hon. treasurer of the Liberal Party organization.

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