1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pontefract Constituency – Biography of Grant

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Pontefract

CANDIDATE : Grant

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Grant, a teacher in the Upton Modern School, near Pontefract, started his career as an engineering apprentice in the Navy. He was wounded aboard H.M.S. Suffolk in the Norweg an campaign, and later joined H.M.S. Heckler, which was sunk in the North African landings in 1942. After the war he was for a time a sales engineer in Malaya.

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