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

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 : Snadden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McN. Snadden won Kinross and Western in 1939 in a by-election from the Duchess of Atholl, who resigned from the Conservative Party and stood as an Independent. A son of the manse, he served in the 1914-18 war and from 1939-40 was Parliam?ntary private secretary to the Under-Secretary for Scotland. An extensive farmer and stock breeder in Perthshire, he has been a champion of the rights of Scottish agriculture.

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