1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hornchurch Constituency – Biography of Bing

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hornchurch

CANDIDATE : Bing

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Geoffrey Bing, who was the first M.P. for Hornchurch, was for a time a Government whip, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party Defence and Services Group, and chairman of the House of Commons branch of the British Legion. Born in 1909, he is a barrister and was one of the founders of the National Council of Civil Liberties in 1934. During the war he served in North Africa and Europe and was wounded.

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