1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham King’s Norton Constituency – Biography of Lloyd

January 7, 2023 admin 1950 General Election

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham King’s Norton

CANDIDATE : Lloyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, born in 1902, was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was president of the Cambridge Union in 1924. He entered Parliament in 1931 for the Ladywood division, and after being Parliamentary private secretary to Lord Baldwin when he was Prime Minister, he became Under-Secretary to the Home Office from 1935 to 1939. He was Secretary for Mines, 1939-40, and Minister in charge of the Petroleum Warfare Department, 1940-45 ; and Minister of Information in the ” Caretaker ” Government. He was defeated at the 1945 election. He is president of the Birmingham Unionist Association and has been a governor of the B.B.C. since 1946. He was made a member of the the Privy Council in 1943.

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