1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedford Constituency – Biography of Skeffington-Lodge
CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedford
CANDIDATE : Skeffington-Lodge
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Bedfordshire’s first Labour member, is the son of a farmer and jointly owns with his sister a 2,000-acre farm in Yorkshire. A bachelor, aged 45, he was chairman of the divisional Labour Party at Pudsey and Otley. He took the lead in forming a group of the Socialist Christian League in the House of Commons.
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