1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Berwick-upon-Tweed Constituency – Biography of Carr

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Berwick-upon-Tweed

CANDIDATE : Carr

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir A. Comyns Carr, K.C., who was M.P. for East Islington, 1923-24, was British prosecutor at the Tokyo war guilt trials and recently prosecuted von Manstein. Born in 1882 and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1908, and took silk in 1924. He is part author of books on national insurance, mining legislation, and world currency.

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