1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caerphilly Constituency – Biography of Edwards

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Caerphilly

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ness Edwards, member for the division since 1939, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in the last Government. Born in 1897, he was educated at an elementary school and at the London Labour College. He was a colliery boy at 13, and became miners’ secretary in 1927 and miners’ agent in 1932. He organized the escape of Sudeten miners from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after Munich, and was on the Parliamentary delegation to Buchenwald camp in 1945.

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