1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedford Constituency – Biography of Soames

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Soames

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. C. Soames is 29 and the husband of Mr. Churchill’s daughter Mary. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards at 19 and served in Lord Wavell’s Middle East •campaign in 1941. He ^vas wounded in the 1942 push at El Agheila, and later went on secret work in Italy and France. After the war he was assistant Military Attache in Paris, where he met Miss Churchill. He is now farming 500 acres at Chartwell Farm, next to his father-in-law’s home.

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