1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Exchange Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Exchange

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. D. Griffiths, who won Moss Side from the Conservatives in 1945, is a consulting ophthalmic optician in Wythenshawe. Born in 1912, he was educated at an elementary school and privately. He served over three years in the Middle East and was with the 8th Army at El Alamein. He is chairman of the Manchester branch of the Socialist Medical Association.

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