1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool Edge Hill Constituency – Biography of Irvine

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool Edge Hill

CANDIDATE : Irvine

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. J. Irvine first contested Kincardine as a Liberal, and in 1943 joined the Labour Party, fighting Twickenham and later South Aberdeen without success. In 1945 he succeeded at Edge Hill. An M.A. of Edinburgh, he also took an Oxford degree and was president of the Union. He is son of the late Mr. J. M. Irvine, K.C.

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