1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Acland

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gravesend

CANDIDATE : Acland

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Richard Acland was Liberal member for Barnstaple from 1935 to 1945. One of the founders of the Common Wealth Party, he stood as their candidate at Putney in 1945 but was defeated, and later joined the Labour Party and won the by-election at Graves-end in 1947. Born in 1906 into a well-known west country Liberal family, he was educated at Rugby and Oxford.

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