1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of White

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Canterbury

CANDIDATE : White

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Baker White has represented Canterbury since 1945. Born in 1902, he worked as a farm labourer and circus hand in the early twenties, and later became a horticulturist and author. During 1935-38 he was engaged on secret service in Germany, escaping across the frontier from the Gestapo in 1938. He served afterwards in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office and accompanied a political mission to the Middle East.

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