1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dewsbury Constituency – Biography of Ramsden

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dewsbury

CANDIDATE : Ramsden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Ramsden is 26, and was educated at Eton, where in 1941 he won an open classical scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1942 the Newcastle scholarship. Instead of going to the university he joined the Army, served in the war and was mentioned in dispatches. After the war he went to Oxford and was given his rugger Blue. After joining the family brewing business at Halifax, he returned to Oxford to complete a degree in political economy.

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