1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barkston Ash Constituency – Biography of Ropner

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barkston Ash

CANDIDATE : Ropner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. L. Ropner was first elected to Parliament for Sedgefield, Durham, in 1923, and won Barkston Ash in 1931 and has held it ever since. Born in 1896 and educated at Harrow and Clare College, Cambridge, he won the M.C. in the first world war and is senior partner in a north-east coast shipping firm. He has served on the Forestry Commission and been chairman of the Conservative and Union Film Association.

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