1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derby North Constituency – Biography of Wilcock

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derby North

CANDIDATE : Wilcock

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Gp. Capt. C. A. B. Wilcock is an engineer, aged 52, and was educated at St. Dunstan’s College and Reading University. He has had a long service in the R.A.F., and served in the Army and the R.F.C. in the first world war, retiring in 1946. He formed the first R.A.F.V.R. squadron in 1937. He has financial interests in civil aviation and was a member of the Labour Party group on that subject. He belongs to the Fabian Society. He was elected as one of the two Labour members for Derby in 1945.

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