1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bebington Constituency – Biography of Soskice

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bebington

CANDIDATE : Soskice

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Frank Soskice, K.C., who was elected “J 1^45 as member for the old Birkenhead East WSion’ Was Solicitor-General throughout the ~” l aniament. He was born in 1902, and is p S^at-grandson of the pre-Raphaelite painter u™ Madox-Brown. During the war he joined The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served in East Africa and the Middle East. He was educated at St. Paul’s School and Balliol, where he held an open classical scholarship ; was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1926, and became a K..C. in 1945 and a Privy Councillor in 1947.

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