1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Renfrewshire East Constituency – Biography of Lloyd

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Renfrewshire East

CANDIDATE : Lloyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. Guy Lloyd, who was born in 1890, and went to Rossall and Keble College, Oxford, was until 1937 an administrator with a firm of thread manufacturers in Glasgow. He resigned to enter politics. In 1940 he won Renfrewshire at a by-election, and held the seat in 1945. He served in the 1914-18 war, and was awarded the D.S.O. He was also in the Army in the last war until his election to Parliament.

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