1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kettering Constituency – Biography of Mitchison

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kettering

CANDIDATE : Mitchison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Mitchison, K.C., member for the division since 1945, was educated at Eton and Oxford, and during the first world war gained the Croix de Guerre, and left the Army with the rank of major. During the late war he worked for the Ministry of Labour on the Beveridge man-power survey and was in charge of the Nufneld College Social Reconstruction Survey in London. He is aged 59, and on the executive of the Fabian Society. His wife is Naomi Mitchison, the authoress.

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