1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Hastings

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barking

CANDIDATE : Hastings

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Somerville Hastings, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, first sat in Parliament for Reading, winning the seat in 1923 and in 1929. In 1932 he became a member of the London County Council, and in 1944 its chairman. He was first president of the Socialist Medical Association, and is chairman of the Health Advisory Committee of the Labour Party, and also a member of the executive. A son of the Rev. H. G. Hastings, he was born in 1878 and educated at Wycliffe College and the University of London. A former president of the otological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was elected member for Barking in 1945.

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