British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cambridge Constituency – Biography of Kerr

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cambridge

CANDIDATE : Kerr

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hamilton Kerr was member for Oldham in the 1931-45 Parliaments, and served as Under-Secretary for Air, 1942-45, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the “caretaker” Government. Born in 1903 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he worked as a journalist in Fleet Street for three years before entering Parliament. He delegate to The Hague Conference in 1949.


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