1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Clayton Constituency – Biography of Thorneycroft

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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