1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heywood and Royton Constituency – Biography of Watkinson

January 7, 2023 admin 1950 General Election

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Heywood and Royton

CANDIDATE : Watkinson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Watkinson, who contested Royton at the last election, was born in 1906, and has held many positions in the Manchester Liberal Federation. Prominent in the administrative side of the building trade, he was in charge of the Works and Buildings emergency organizations for the country during the war, and was responsible for much repair work in London after the rocket bomb damage.

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