British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middlesbrough West Constituency – Biography of Fothergill

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Middlesbrough West

CANDIDATE : Fothergill

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Fothergill is president-elect of the Liberal Party. Aged 43, he is a native of Dewsbury, and was educated at Bootham School, York. He is a woollen manufacturer, and founder and governing director of a firm with branches at Dewsbury and Edinburgh. During the war he was appointed a labour and welfare adviser in industry.


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