British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holland with Boston Constituency – Biography of Butcher

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Holland with Boston

CANDIDATE : Butcher

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Butcher, theNational Liberal Chief Whip, has represented this division since 1937. Born in 1901, he went 1 to Hastings Grammar School and the College of Estate Management, and is a surveyor and land agent. He has a farm near Boston and served on Peterborough County Council from 1931 to 1937. In 1944 he went on a Parliamentary delegation to Australia and New Zealand.


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