1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Houghton-le-Spring Constituency – Biography of Bolam

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Houghton-le-Spring

CANDIDATE : Bolam

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. B. Bolam, who is 29, made local history in 1945 by becoming the youngest member to be elected to the Jarrow Town Council. She gave up her job as secretary to the headmaster of Jarrow Grammar School to give her time to political work, and helped to form the Young Conservatives Association, of which she was chairman until 1947. She won a Ministry of Labour scholarship to Sherry’s College, Newcastle, and a scholarship to Ashridge College.

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