1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Woodside Constituency – Biography of Bennett

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Woodside

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. Bennett, unsuccessful in the Shettleston division in 1945, is a member of Glasgow Royal Exchange, the Chamber of Commerce, and Glasgow Trades House. He is immediate past president of the Scottish Unionist Association. In the 1914-18 war he was wounded while an officer in the Tank Corps. He is a former magistrate and member of Glasgow Corporation.

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