1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington South Constituency – Biography of Spens

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kensington South

CANDIDATE : Spens

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Patrick Spens, K.C., born in 1885, was M.P. for Ashford from 1,933 to 1943. He took silk in 1925 and was Master of the Bench, Inner Temple, 1934. He was Chief Justice of India from 1943 to 1947, and in 1947-48 was chairman ot the arbitration tribunal to settle partition disputes between India and Pakistan. He is a director pi assurance and banking companies. He was knighted in 1943 and created K.B.E. in 1948.

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