1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dewsbury Constituency – Biography of Paling

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dewsbury

CANDIDATE : Paling

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Will T. Paling, brother of the former postmaster-General, is •>?>> and began work in a coalmine. After attend-un n evening classes in ^.iy he won a scholar-^n’P to the Central Labour College, London, where he trained as a lecturer in economics, industrial history and sociology. In 1924 he mf V,0, the Yorkshire “iinetield, whence he became a check weigh-™an and active in the Miners’ Association. Co W ia member °f West Riding County Council.

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