British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brigg Constituency – Biography of Cowley

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brigg

CANDIDATE : Cowley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. M. Cowley, a 30-year-old barrister, served during the war as a flight lieutenant. He was a prisoner of war from 1941 to 1944, when he escaped. He was born in Belfast, and educated at Radley and Exeter College, Oxford. His father, also a Liberal, is a deemster in the Isle of Man.


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