1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harwich Constituency – Biography of Holmes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harwich

CANDIDATE : Holmes

PARTY : Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir J. Stanley Holmes, aged 70, first sat in Parliament for East Derbyshire, but from 1935 represented the Harwich division. He sponsored the private members’ Bills which eventually became the Inheritance (Family Provision) Act, 1938, and the Coast Protection Act, 1939. A chartered accountant, he is the chairman of a number of companies, and is also vice-president of the Building Societies’ Association.

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