1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington North Constituency – Biography of Field

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington North

CANDIDATE : Field

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Field is a department manager who was born in 1910 and educated at Richmond County School and London University. He contested Hampstead in 1945, when he 1 reduced the Conservative majority of over 20,000 to 1,368 ; and entered Parliament in a by-election at North Pad-dington in 1946. Elected to Hammersmith Borough Council in 1945, he was leader of the council from 1946 to 1949 : and he is a member of the Metropolitan Borough Standing Joint Committee.

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