1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Moray and Nairnshire Constituency – Biography of Stuart

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Moray and Nairnshire

CANDIDATE : Stuart

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Stuart was born in 1897, and is the third son of the seventeenth Earl of Moray. He was educated at Eton and served in The Royal Scots in the 1914-18 war, in which he won the! M.C., and became aj brigade-major in 1918. For a time he acted as equerry to the Duke of York and entered Parliament in 1923. He was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1935 to 1941, and was Government Chief Whip from 1941 until 1945. He then became Opposition Chief Whip, a position from which he resigned in 1948 on grounds of ill-health.

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