1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gainsborough Constituency – Biography of Spence

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gainsborough

CANDIDATE : Spence

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. I. Spence, K.C., a barrister, aged 47 and 6ft. 7in. tall, was in the last great diamond rush in South Africa, and afterwards worked a passage to Canada as a cabin steward and hitch-hiked across the Dominion. He served on Air Marshal Cqnyngham’s staff in the Western Desert during the war, and after demobilization took silk. He practises in London.

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