1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham West Constituency – Biography of Skeffington

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham West

CANDIDATE : Skeffington

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. B. Skeffington, who was born in 1909 and educated at Streatham High School and London Universtiy, was unsuccessful in by-elections at Streatham and West Lewisham, but was elected in 1945. Before the war he was a lecturer, and during the war worked at the Board of Trade on the concentration of industry and afterwards at the Ministry of Supply as Assistant Director of Medical Supplies. In the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and a member of the Parliamentary delegation to East Africa.

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