1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington North Constituency – Biography of Hughes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington North

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Moelwyn Hughes, K.C., born in October, 1897, is a son of a former Moderator of the Welsh Presbyterian Church. He was educated at the University of Wales and Cambridge. In 1941 he was elected for Carmarthen, but was defeated there in 1945. Mr. Hughes is Recorder of Bolton, and was chairman of the Catering Wages Commission and the Cotton Manufacturing Commission.

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