1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ashton-under-Lyne Constituency – Biography of Howcroft

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ashton-under-Lyne

CANDIDATE : Howcroft

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. G. B. Howcroft, aged 54, is a practising architect in Oldham, a lecturer on architecture at Manchester University, and a director of a spinning company. An active member of Oldham Borough Council, he is also chairman of the dilapidations committee in the Manchester diocese and a member of the church building and sites committee. Served with the 7th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in 1914-18 and was in command of it at the outbreak of the last war.

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