1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Sparkbrook Constituency – Biography of Shurmer

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Sparkbrook

CANDIDATE : Shurmer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. L. E. Shurmer, who was born in Cheltenham in 1890, went into the Merchant Service on leaving school at the age of 13. Marrying early, he forsook the sea, and after a variety of jobs was in the Post Office Engineering Department for a number of years. In 1921, he first became a member of the Birmingham City Council, and still serves on it. In 1945 he captured Sparkbrook from Mr. L. S. Amery.

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