1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middlesbrough East Constituency – Biography of Thomas

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Middlesbrough East

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. W. S. Russell Thomas was born in 1896 and educated at Christ’s College, Brecon, and Queens’ College, Cambridge. He qualified both as physician and surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, and was later called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn. After fighting three different seats in 1931, 1935, and 1936, he was returned unopposed for Southampton as a Liberal National in 1940, but was defeated in 1945.

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