British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedfordshire South Constituency – Biography of Fearnley-Whittingstall

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedfordshire South

CANDIDATE : Fearnley-Whittingstall

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Fearnley-Whittingstall, K.C., is Recorder of Grantham and deputy chairman of Bedfordshire quarter sessions. When only 26 he contested Seaham against Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the 1929 election. He£corn-manded the 18th Indian L.A.A. Regiment in the last war and was mentioned in dispatches.


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