1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chelmsford Constituency – Biography of Ashton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chelmsford

CANDIDATE : Ashton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Ashton, a company director and farming 300 acres at Ingat’e-stone, is Deputy Lieutenant and has been High Sheriff of the county, and is vice-chairman of Essex County Council and president of Essex County Cricket Club. Born in 1898, he was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, where he gained a triple blue in cricket, football, and hockey. He won the M.C. in the first world war.

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