1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester North East Constituency – Biography of Donovan

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester North East

CANDIDATE : Donovan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. N. Donovan, K.C., aged 51, gained the old East Leicester seat from the Conservatives at the 1945 election. He was called to the Bar in 1924. He entered the Civil Service in 1920 and was for many years at Somerset House. He resigned in 1932 when he began practising at the Bar. In 1937 he was called to the Southern Rhodesian Bar. He was a member of the Denning Committee on divorce procedure and the Statute Law Revision Committee.

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