1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lanarkshire North Constituency – Biography of Herbison

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lanarkshire North

CANDIDATE : Herbison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Herbison was born in 1907 and educated at Glasgow University and is a teacher. A daughter of a miner, she has been associated with the Labour movement all her life. She won North Lanark from the Conservatives in 1945. She is the only woman member of the Miners’ Welfare Commission, and she went to Strasbourg last August as the only woman delegate of the British Government to the Council of Europe. She is a member of the national executive of the Labour Party.

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