1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Breconshire and Radnorshire Constituency – Biography of Watkins

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Breconshire and Radnorshire

CANDIDATE : Watkins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. E. Watkins, who has acted as secretary to the Welsh Parliamentary Party, entered Parliament in 1945, when he won the Brecon and Radnor seat from the Conservatives. Born in Abercrave in 1903, from 1928 to 1933 he was political agent for the division and in 1937 was appointed general secretary to the Breconshire Association of Friendly Societies. For 16 years he was secretary to the divisional Labour Party.

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