1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hemsworth 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 : Hemsworth

CANDIDATE : Holmes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Horace Holmes was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power in the last Parliament. He started work at 13 as a miner and served for many years as an official in the miners’union. He was for 23 years a member of Royston R.D.C. and for 11 years sat on the West Riding County Council. He is 59, and won the D.C.M. in the war. He was first returned to Parliament unopposed at a by-election at Hemsworth in 1946. His majority this time was the largest in the election.

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