1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bath Constituency – Biography of Pitman

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bath

CANDIDATE : Pitman

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. J. Pitman, who became M.P. for the division in 1945, is a grandson of the late Sir Isaac Pitman, and chairman and joint managing director of the Pitman Press. He was a director of the Bank of England up to the time of its nationalization, and for two years previous to 1945, he was director of organization and methods at the Treasury. Born in 1901, and educated at Eton and Oxford, he excelled in athletics, gaining his blue at Oxford in rugby, playing for England against Scotland, and winning the Public Schools middle-weight boxing championship in 1919.

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