1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gower Constituency – Biography of Harding

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gower

CANDIDATE : Harding

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Harding, born in 1901, was educated at Cambridge, qualified as a solicitor, was called to the Bar in 1928 and practised on the Wales and Chester circuit. He is Chancellor of the Diocese of St. David’s, and a member of the govening body of the Church in Wales. A keen Rugby footballer, he has captained Cambridge University, the Barbarians, and Wales, and was Welsh sprint champion in 1922 and 1926. He unsuccessfully contested East Swansea in 1945.

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