1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huntingdonshire Constituency – Biography of Renton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huntingdonshire

CANDIDATE : Renton

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David L. – M. Renton, a doctor’s son, was born at Dartford in 1908 and educated at Oundle and University College, Oxford, where he was president of the Liberal Club in 1930. He was called to the Bar in 1933, has practised in London and on the So?th-East Circuit, and was elected to the Bar Council in 1939. Commissioned in the Territorial Army in 1938, he served with the Royal Artillery in the Middle East, becoming a major in 1943. Later he was president of the British Military Court in Tripolitania. He was elected National Liberal M.P. for Huntingdonshire in 1945.

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