1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kingston upon Hull Haltemprice Constituency – Biography of Burrell

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kingston upon Hull Haltemprice

CANDIDATE : Burrell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Burrell, who was born in Leeds in 1884, worked on the L.N.E.R. as a fitter and later as a colliery engineer in Durham. From 1908 he was an insurance agent and organized the Insurance Agents’ U nion. He was president of the National Federation of Insurance Workers for two years. In 1938 he was a trade union delegate to Russia as a guest of the U.S.S.R. Government. He served with the Navy in the 1914-18 war.

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