1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Norwood Constituency – Biography of Smyth

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 : Smyth

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. J. G. Smyth, V.C, author, journalist, broadcaster, playwright, and politician, is a Devonshire man. He was born in 1893 and was educated at Repton and the Royal Military College. Holder of many decorations, he has had several staff appointments. During the war he raised the 19th (” Dagger “) Division, which had a great part in the recapture of Mandalay and Rangoon. In 1945 he unsuccessfully opposed Mr. Ernest Bevin in Central Wands-worth.

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