British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northwich Constituency – Biography of Foster

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northwich

CANDIDATE : Foster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Foster, barrister and specialist in international law, was elected in 1945. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and was a Fellow of All Souls. Called to the Bar in 1927, he was appointed Recorder of Dudley in 1936 and of Oxford in 1938. He served at the British Embassy in Washington handling the legal side of lend-lease, and was later a brigadier on Gen. Eisenhower’s staff in Normandy. He is 43.


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