1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cirencester and Tewkesbury Constituency – Biography of Morrison

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cirencester and Tewkesbury

CANDIDATE : Morrison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Morrison, K.C., was born in 1893 in Scotland. He served in the 1914-18 war, and has represented Cirencester and Tewkesbury since 1929. Before the war he held several junior posts, and in 1939 was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was the first Minister of Food from 1939 to 1940, and subsequently became Minister ?f Town and Country Planning. He took silk in 1934.

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