1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Beverley Constituency – Biography of Odey

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Beverley

CANDIDATE : Odey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. W. Odey was returned for the old Howdenshire division in 1947. Born in 1900, he went to Faversham Grammar School and University College, London, and in 1925 joined a firm of tanners and leather merchants, of which he rose to be managing dir;ctor. He received the C.B.E. in 1945 for war work for the Government.

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