1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlton Constituency – Biography of Paton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlton

CANDIDATE : Paton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. F. Paton, who was elected for Rush-cliffe in 1945, is the only woman to be appointed to the Speaker’s Panel of Chairmen of Committees of the House of Commons, and was the first woman to preside over the House in Committee in 1948. She is the wife of Mr. John Paton, M.P. for Norwich since 1945. She is a former teacher, and during the war she taught in London and lectured to the Forces.

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