1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh North Constituency – Biography of Clyde

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh North

CANDIDATE : Clyde

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Clyde, K.C., contested Peebles and Midlothian at the last General Election. Aped 51, he is a son of the late Lord Clyde, a distinguished Scottish judge who was North Edinburgh’s first M.P. when the division was created early in the century. Mr. Clyde became a King’s Counsel in 1936, and during the war was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to report on the allocation of Government contracts in Scotland.

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