1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewes Constituency – Biography of Beamish

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewes

CANDIDATE : Beamish

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. Tufton Beamish, who was born in 1917, succeeded his father, Rear-Adm. T. P. H. Beamish, in 1945, as M.P. for Lewes. Educated at Stowe he was commissioned in 1936 and served in Palestine 1938-39. He was a company commander and won the M.C. at Dunkirk, and was at Singapore when it fell to the Japanese, .escaping with others in a small boat to Sumatra. After serving on Gen. Slim’s staff in India, he returned to his former unit in 1943 in North Africa. He also fought in Italy and was wounded.

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