1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Lothian Constituency – Biography of Mathers

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Lothian

CANDIDATE : Mathers

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Mathers was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1946 and the two following years. Born at St. Boswells, Roxburghshire, in 1886, he worked as a railway clerk and was active in trade union and labour affairs. He was a member of Carlisle City Council from 1919 to 1921, and from 1929 to 1931 he was M.P. for West Edinburgh, and re-entered Parliament in 1935 for the then Linlithgow division. In 1944-45 he was Comptroller of H.M. Household, and later became Treasurer of the Household and Deputy Chief Whip. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Edinburgh. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1947.

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