1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackburn West Constituency – Biography of Assheton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn West

CANDIDATE : Assheton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ralph Assheton, aged 49, comes from a family which has owned land in Lancashire and elsewhere since the Middle Ages. An ancestor, Sir John De Assheton, was summoned to Parliament in 1323. Mr. Assheton was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1925. He was elected for Rushcliffe in 1934, and in 1940 became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. In 1942 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, and in 1943 Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Before the 1945 General Election, in which he lost his seat, he was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party. He re-entered Parliament in 1945 for the City of London, a seat which has now been abolished.

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