1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Perry Barr Constituency – Biography of Poole

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Perry Barr

CANDIDATE : Poole

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Cecil Poole represented the old Lichfield division from 1938 to 1945. A native of Wellington, Salop, he is aged 48. He was a member of Walsall Borough Council from 1931 to 1938. He began work at the age of 16 with the L.M.S. Railway in South Wales, and later served in Westmorland and the Midlands. During the second world war he served in the Royal Engineers, reaching the rank of major.

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