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

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 : Herbert

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Herbert was born in 1905, the son of Sir Jesse Herbert, one of the leaders of the Liberal campaigns of 1906 and 1910. Educated at Westminster and University College, Oxford (where he was president of the Union), he joined the B.B.C., and was programme director for the Malaya Broadcasting Corporation until two days before the Japanese took Singapore, from which he escaped. Until the end of the war he was in charge of political broadcasting for S.E.A.C. Appointed secretary of the Liberal Central Association in 1947, he became director and chief agent.

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