British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Preston South Constituency – Biography of McLean

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Preston South

CANDIDATE : McLean

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. L. D. McLean, who recently resigned his commission in the Army to take an active part in politics, was born in 1918, and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He served in Palestine during the Arab rebellion, and commanded a battalion of Eritrean Volunteers in Abyssinia under General Wingate. He parachuted into Greece in 1943 and headed the first allied military mission to the Albanian resistance movement. He is now associated with his family’s export business.


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