British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Colchester Constituency – Biography of Alport

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Colchester

CANDIDATE : Alport

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. M. Alport, born in 1912, went to Haileybury, became president of the Cambridge Union in 1935, and in that year led a debating team to the United States. He joined the Artists’ Rifles before 1939 and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He is a director of education in the Conservative Party.


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