1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckingham Constituency – Biography of Markham

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Buckingham

CANDIDATE : Markham

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. F. Markham was successively Labour and National Labour M.P. for Rochester, 1929-31. He was joint Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. He then left the Party and was elected National M.P. for South Nottingham in 1935, losing the seat in 1945. He was educated at Stony Stratford and Wolverton, and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is an author, a Fellow of several learned societies, and an expert on museums. He is 53.

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