1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Monmouth 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 : Monmouth

CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, elected M.P. for Stafford in 1938, was defeated in 1945 but won a by-election at Monmouth in October of that year. Born in 1909 ?nd educated at Eton, he went on to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1930. Four years later he became a barrister and practised on the Oxford circuit. In the ” caretaker” Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.

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