1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds North Constituency – Biography of Peake

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds North

CANDIDATE : Peake

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Osbert Peake, who was born at Don-caster in 1897, served with the Coldstream Guards in the 1914-18 war. After being called to the Bar, he took up politics, was elected for North Leeds in 1929, and has represented it ever since. He has been Under-Secretary to the Home Office and Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Formerly a coalowner in South Yorkshire, he is an authority on industrial matters and helped to draft the Workmen’s Compensation Act. He is a descendant of Earl Grey, Prime Minister in 1832. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1943.

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