1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Doncaster Constituency – Biography of Barber

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Doncaster

CANDIDATE : Barber

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. P. L. Barber, son of the secretary-director of a Doncaster works, is 29. He went to France in 1939 with a Doncaster Territorial unit and was at Dunkirk. Later, he was a pilot in the R.A.F. and was captured by the Germans. He was mentioned in dispatches for his part in escapes from the prison camp, and while a prisoner took a law degree with first-class honours through the International Red Cross. Awarded a State grant to Oxford and an Inner Temple scholarship, he is practising as a barrister.

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