British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lancaster Constituency – Biography of Maclean

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lancaster

CANDIDATE : Maclean

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. Fitzroy Maclean won the division when he was a second lieutenant in 1941. Born in 1911, he served the Foreign Office in Paris and Moscow, but resigned from the diplomatic service to enlist as a private in The Cameron Highlanders. Later he joined the First Special Air Service Regiment. A feature in an adventurous life which he has led was his visit to the headquarters of Tito as head of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia.


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