1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury and Radcliffe Constituency – Biography of Fletcher

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bury and Radcliffe

CANDIDATE : Fletcher

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr.Walter Fletcher, aged 57, who first entered Parliament in 1945, is an expert on rubber and Far Eastern affairs, being chairman and managing director of a firm of rubber merchants, and past chairman of the Rubber Trade Association. He was reputed to be the heaviest man in the last House of Commons, turning the scale at 19 stone. He has a farm in Hertfordshire, and, as an artist, has exhibited at the Royal Academy. For special service in the Far East in 1939-46 he was made a C.B.E.

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