1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derby South Constituency – Biography of Noel-Baker

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 : Noel-Baker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, appointed Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations in 1947, was previously Secretary of State for Air and Minister of State. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1929. Aged 60, he was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a running Blue. He has written several books, and has held the Cassell Professorship of International Relations, University of London. We was a member of the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919; and personal assistant to the British delegate at the League of Nations, 1923-24.

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