1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cheltenham Constituency – Biography of Beach

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cheltenham

CANDIDATE : Beach

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. W. Hicks Beach was also the Conservative candidate in 1945. Aged 43, he was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and is a solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn. He served in the war with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (T.A.), which he joined in 1933 ; was adjutant in 1940, and commanded a squadron for three and a half years before becoming second in command. He is a great nephew of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1895, 1902.

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