1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne North Constituency – Biography of Headlam

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle upon Tyne North

CANDIDATE : Headlam

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Cuthbert Headlam was elected for this division in 1940, and previously sat for Barnard Castle, 1924-29 and 1931-35. He was at various times Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, to the Minister of Pensions, and to the Minister of Transport. He was born in 1876, and was adopted for North Newcastle at a meeting of the local association, which reversed a decision of the executive council that he should not be nominated because of age. He went to King’s School, Canterbury, and Magdalen College, Oxford, and has been a member of Durham County Council.

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