1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackburn East Constituency – Biography of Castle

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn East

CANDIDATE : Castle

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Barbara Castle, aged 38, was one of the two M.P.s for Blackburn m the last Parliament. She won a scholarship to St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, and entered journalism. An administrative officer m the Ministry of Food until her election to parliament in 1945, she was later Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps when he was at the Board of Trade, and to his successor, Mr. H. Wilson. Last year she was one of the ontish representatives at the General Assembly °t the United Nations.

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