1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Scotstoun Constituency – Biography of Young

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Scotstoun

CANDIDATE : Young

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Arthur Young, who represented the Partick division from 1935 to the dissolution, is a director of a Glasgow firm of carpet manufacturers. He was the Scottish Conservative Whip in 1942, and then successively a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. From 1941 to 1949 he was a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. He is a keen yachtsman and has raced in America.

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