1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnsley Constituency – Biography of Walker

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barnsley

CANDIDATE : Walker

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. H. Walker is a Barnsley solicitor and a member of a well-known Barnsley family. Born in 1908, he was educated at Cambridge, where he obtained his Law Tripos. Commissioned in The Green Howards he was seriously wounded at El Alamein in 1942, and later was awarded the Military Cross. He is a local preacher of the Methodist Church.

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