1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Midlothian and Peeblesshire Constituency – Biography of Pryde

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Midlothian and Peeblesshire

CANDIDATE : Pryde

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. J. Pryde was born in 1890 and worked as a miner until 1933, when he took up full-time union activities. He served for many years on the Mid and West Lothian Miners’ Delegate Board, and for 10 years represented Lo?hian miners on the executive of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers. A member of the Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Town Council, he resigned from that body in 1945 when he won the former Peebles and Southern Midlothian constituency from the Conservatives.

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