1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury St Edmunds Constituency – Biography of Aitken

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bury St Edmunds

CANDIDATE : Aitken

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Aitken, a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook, was born in Canada in 1905, and is general manager of an Empire news service and a director of other companies. A fighter pilot during the war, he crashed and spent two years in hospital with 19 major operations. He fought West Derbyshire in 1945, losing by 156 votes.

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