1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Norwood Constituency – Biography of Chamberlain

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Norwood

CANDIDATE : Chamberlain

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Chamberlain unexpectedly defeated Mr. Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works and son-in-law of Mr. Churchill in the 1945 General Election. Mr. Chamberlain was born in Islington in 1901 and won scholarships to Cambridge University. For some years he was secretary of the National Federation of Housing Societies, and afterwards joined the Miners’ Welfare Commission and later the National Hostels’ Corporation. From 1945 to )948 he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning.

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