1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon East Constituency – Biography of Williams

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon East

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Herbert Williams, who is 66, represented South Croydon from 1932 until 1945. He sat for Reading from 1924 to 1929, and in 1928-29 was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. An engineer, he is associated with many trade and industrial organizations. He was chairman of the executive of the London Conservative Union, and a member of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on national expenditure from 1939 to 1944. He is honorary secretary of the Empire Economic Union, and was knighted in 1939.

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