British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kinross and West Perthshire Constituency – Biography of Millar

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kinross and West Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Millar

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. D. Millar was born in Alloa 36 years ago, but has lived in Perthshire since childhood. A chartered civil engineer, he was at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in mechanical sciences. In 1939 he became an A.M.I.C.E. He served in the Royal Engineers during the war, rose to the rank of major, and was awarded the M.C. He is engaged as a civil engineer on the hydroelectric scheme at Pitlochry. He contested Banff in 1945. His father, Sir James Millar, who died in 1932, was at one time Liberal M.P. for East Fife.


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