1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Hurd

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newbury

CANDIDATE : Hurd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony Hurd, son of Sir Percy Hurd, M.P. for Devizes 1924-45, was elected for Newbury in 1945. Born in 1901, he was educated at Marl-borough and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and has farmed in Wiltshire for 20 years, as well as writing on agricultural subjects. He has travelled extensively investigating agriculture in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, South Africa, the United States, and Canada, and has broadcast farming talks for the B.B.C. From 1939 to 1945 he was an assistant agricultural adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, and is a member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society.

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