1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Clayton Constituency – Biography of Thorneycroft

January 7, 2023 admin 1950 General Election

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Clayton

CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Thorneycroft, who was elected for Clayton in a by-election in 1942 and re-elected in 1945, is a hairdresser and a former president of the National Federation of Hairdressers. Born in 1892, he served in the 1914-18 war, and in 1923 was elected to Manchester City Council, of which he is an alderman. A former Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Air, he is also on the Police Counc.l.

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