1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth East and Christchurch Constituency – Biography of Bracken

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bournemouth East and Christchurch

CANDIDATE : Bracken

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Brendan Bracken, who is 49, entered Parliament in 1929 asM.P. for North Paddington. Ten years later he became Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and later as Prime Minister. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1940 and Minister of Information a year later. In May, 1945, he went to the Admiralty as First Lord, but lost his seat in the election that year. In the following November he was elected for Bournemouth at a by-election. A director of Eyre and Spottiswoode for many years; he is chairman of the Union Corporation and of the Financial Times.

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