1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool Garston Constituency – Biography of Raikes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool Garston

CANDIDATE : Raikes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. V. Raikes was born in 1901, educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and called to the Bar in 1924. He unsuccessfully contested llkeston in 1924 and 1929 and was elected for South-East Essex in 1931. In 1945 he was returned for Wavertree, Liverpool, which has disappeared under the redistribution. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.V.R.

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