1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aldershot Constituency – Biography of Lyttelton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aldershot

CANDIDATE : Lyttelton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, who has sat for Aldershot since 1940, was a member of Mr. Churchill’s War Cabinet, being successively President of the Board of Trade, Minister of State in the Middle East, and Minister of Production. He was managing director of British Metal Corporation Limited before entering the Government, and is now chairman of Associated Electrical Industries. Born in 1893, he is the only son of the late Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and served in the Grenadier Guards in 1914-18.

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