1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnsley Constituency – Biography of Collindridge

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barnsley

CANDIDATE : Collindridge

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Collindridge, born in 1893, went to work in the mines at the age of 13. At 19 he emigrated to Canada, but returned after a few years during the first world war. For 22 years he was a trade union official, and became M.P. for Barnsley at a by-election in 1938. During the wartime Coalition Government he was for two years Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Mines. In 1945 he was appointed a Labour Whip, and the year after Comptroller of the Household. He visited Russia in 1936 with a National Union of Mineworkers’ delegation.

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