1950 GENERAL ELECTION : North Angus and Mearns Constituency – Biography of Thornton-Kemsley

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : North Angus and Mearns

CANDIDATE : Thornton-Kemsley

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Colin Thornton-Kemsley represented Kincardine and W. Aberdeen from 1939. Born in 1903, he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and for a time practised in the family firm of chartered surveyors in London. He is a director of the John Lewis Partnership. During the war he held staff appointments with ths Royal Artillery and was Assistant Quartermaster-General, Eastern Command, with the rank of colonel.

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