1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldham West Constituency – Biography of Horobin

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oldham West

CANDIDATE : Horobin

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. M. Horobin, aged 49, is a son of the late Principal J. C. Horobin, Homerton College, Cambridge, and from 1931 to 1935 represented Central Southwark. He was at Sidney ?ussex College, Cambridge, and took an honours degree in economics. In 1918-19 he was a flight lieutenant; he served in the Far East with the R.A.F. in the 1939-45 war as a squadron leader, and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. In 1923 he refounded the Mansfield House University Settlement, Albert Dock, London, and has lived there for the past 23 years as warden.

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