1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds South East Constituency – Biography of Milner

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds South East

CANDIDATE : Milner

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. James Milner, Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy-Speaker of the House of Commons from March, 1943, till June, 1945, and again since September, 1945, was born in 1889 and is a Leeds solicitor. Educated at Leeds University, he was elected for South-East Leeds in 1929 and has been returned ever since. He was a major in the 1914-18 war and was wounded. For his services he was awarded the M.C. and bar. Deputy Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1928, he has also been chairman of the Leeds Labour Party and president of Leeds Law Society. He is a Privy Councillor and deputy-li;utenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. For 4£ years he has been chairman of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and led the British delegation to Ceylon, presenting the Speaker’s Chair and Mace there.

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