1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon West Constituency – Biography of Rees-Williams

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon West

CANDIDATE : Rees-Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. R. Rees-Williams, who was appointed Under-Secretary for the Colonies in 1947, is aged 46, and a solicitor. He entered Parliament in 1945 by winning South Croydon. He was a member of the Straits Settlements Bar from 1930 to 1935, and because of his knowledge of colonial affairs was appointed chairman of the Commonwealth and Empire Group of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1946. He served in the Royal Artillery with the rank of colonel in the late war, and is a native of Bridgend, Glamorgan.

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