1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derby South Constituency – Biography of Grimes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derby South

CANDIDATE : Grimes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. R. C. D. Grimes was educated at Derby School and went to sea as a midshipman towards the end of the first war. He retired from the Navy in 1945 after 25 years’ service, which included two commissions in China and one in New Zealand. He was on convoy service in the last war. He is managing director of a family drapery business, and a member of Derby Town Council.

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