1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orpington Constituency – Biography of Smithers

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Orpington

CANDIDATE : Smithers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Waldron Smithers, born in 1880, has represented Chisle-hurst (and later Orpington) for 25 years. Since 1900 he has been organist at Knockholt parish church, and he was in former years a prominent cricketer. He is a non-practising member of the Stock Exchange, and a governor of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

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