1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penrith and The Border Constituency – Biography of Scott

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Penrith and The Border

CANDIDATE : Scott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. D. Scott is a B.A. in Agriculture of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a farmer. Born in 1901, he was M.P. for the Wansbeck division of Northumberland from 1940 to 1945, and for a time was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and chairman of the advisory committee on hill farming. For 10 years he was a member of the Rothbury Rural District Council, and has been chairman of his local branch of the National Farmers’ Union.

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