1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banbury Constituency – Biography of Dodds-Parker

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banbury

CANDIDATE : Dodds-Parker

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. D. Dodds-Parker is 41, and was first elected for Banbury in 1945. Educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Sudan Political Service from 1930 to 1938. Joining the Grenadier Guards in 1939, he served during the war in East Africa, North Africa, Italy, and France, and reached the rank of colonel in 1944. He holds two French decorations. In 1946 he was appointed chairman of the British Empire Producers’ Association.

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