1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Darwen Constituency – Biography of Prescott

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Darwen

CANDIDATE : Prescott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Stanley Prescott won Darwen at a by-election in 1943, when he had a majority of 70, and held it in 1945. A member of the Parliamentary Mission to Japan in 1947, he warned the cotton trade on his return of the danger of Japanese competition. Aged 38, and educated at Cambridge, he practised at the Bar until 1939, then served in the war, and has since directed a factory in London.

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