1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newport Constituency – Biography of Thomas

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newport

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ivor Thomas, former Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, and the Colonial Office, was M.P. for Keighley from 1942 to the dissolution. He resigned from the Labour Party in 1948 because of his opposition to the Iron and Steel Act. Born in 1905 and educated at St. John’s College and Magdalen College, Oxford, he has been on the staff of London newspapers. He was commissioned in 1940 in The Norfolk Regiment.

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