1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlton Constituency – Biography of Pickthorn

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlton

CANDIDATE : Pickthorn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn, who was born in 1892, was elected for Cambridge University at a by-election in 1935 and was returned in 1945. Educated at Aldenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained firsts in the History Tripos, he is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and a lecturer in history. During the 1914-18 war he served in the London Regiment and the R.A.F. in France and Macedonia. He was vice-chairman of the Conservative Party foreign affairs committee, and the author of several historical works.

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