1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Morecambe and Lonsdale Constituency – Biography of Gaskell

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Morecambe and Lonsdale

CANDIDATE : Gaskell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

M?. A. Gaskell, aged 50, is rural industries organizer for the north-west. He was secretary to the Liberal Party in Ramsbottom, Lancashire, where he lives, but in 1922 he joined the Labour Party, and was for a time secretary of the Heywood and Radcliffe divisional party. From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the Lancashire County Council, and is a member and former chairman of the Ramsbottom Urban Council, resigning in 1940.

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html