1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gateshead East Constituency – Biography of Zilliacus

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gateshead East

CANDIDATE : Zilliacus

PARTY : Lab. Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Zilliacus, who won Gateshead in 1945, was expelled from the Labour Party last year for persistently criticizing the Government’s foreign policy. He was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1894, his father being of Swedish-Finnish and his mother of American-Scottish birth. He was educated at Petersfield, Hants, and Yale University, where he graduated ” First of his year,” and he speaks eight languages. In the first world war he served with the Royal Flying Corps and was intelligence officer with the British Military Mission in Siberia.

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