1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leek Constituency – Biography of Speir

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leek

CANDIDATE : Speir

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. M. Speir, a solicitor and merchant banker with a London firm, was born in 1910, and was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Chairman of the University Conservative Association in 1931, he was chairman of the Chelsea Junior Imperial League the following year and acted as an honorary secretary to Sir Samuel Hoare when Secretary of State for India. Since 1946 he has been an officer of the City of London Conservative Association. He served in the Army during the war and became a lieutenant-colonel.

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