1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hammersmith North Constituency – Biography of Pritt

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith North

CANDIDATE : Pritt

PARTY : Lab. Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C., who represented the division from 1935 until the dissolution, was born in 1887 and educated at Winchester, London University and abroad. He took silk in 1927. Formerly a member of the national executive, he was expelled from the Labour Party in 1940 because of his opposition to official policy on Russia and Finland. In the last Parliament he became chairman of the ” Independent ” group of five Labour Members. He is also chairman of the Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R., and president of the Student Labour Federation.

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