1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Beckenham Constituency – Biography of Buchan-Hepburn

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Beckenham

CANDIDATE : Buchan-Hepburn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Buchan-Hepburn, who represented the East Toxteth division of Liverpool from 1931, was Conservative Chief Whip in the late Parliament. In 1939 he was appointed an Assistant Government Whip and soon afterwards a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. During the war he joined the 11th City of London Yeomanry and became a brigade major. Born in 1901, he was educated at Harrow and Cambridge.

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