1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newark-on-Trent Constituency – Biography of Shephard

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newark-on-Trent

CANDIDATE : Shephard

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Shephard, M.P. for Newark from 1943 to the dissolution, is chairman and managing director of a Nottingham firm manufacturing children’s clothes, and was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1941. He served with The Sherwood Foresterers from 1914 to 1919, was commissioned from the ranks, and won the M.C., and was an Army welfare officer from 1939 to 1946, as well as commanding the Newark Home Guard battalion.

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