1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poole Constituency – Biography of King

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poole

CANDIDATE : King

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. M. King was member for Penryn and Falmouth in the last Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. Born in 1907, he was educated at Cheltenham and Cambridge, became assistant master at Bedford School, and was head master of Clayesmore School until he entered Parliament in 1945. He joined The Gloucestershire Reginient in 1940 and rose to the rank of acting lieutenant-colonel.

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