1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hexham Constituency – Biography of Brown

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hexham

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : The Speaker

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. Douglas Clifton Brown, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is 70 years of age. Educated at Cheam, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned in the King’s Dragoon Guards and served throughout the 1914-18 war, being Brigade Major of the 17th Mounted Brigade in 1916. In 1922 he joined the Northumberland Hussars, and succeeded to the command of the regiment in 1925. Entering Parliament for Hexham in 1918, he has represented that constituency since with a short break in 1923-24. He was Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker from 1938 to 1943, and Chairman of Ways and Means in 1943, when he was elected Speaker. He has stated that he will retire at the end of the present Parliament.

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