1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poole Constituency – Biography of Wheatley

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poole

CANDIDATE : Wheatley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. M. J. Wheatley represented East Dorset in the last Parliament and was a Conservative Whip. Now in his 70th year, he served in the South African war and the 1914-18 war and commanded a Home Guard battalion in the last war. For 20 years he was in the Sudan Political Service, became private secretary to the Governor-General of the Sudan in 1916, and later was appointed Governor of the Bahr-el-Shazal Province. After retiring from the Army he turned to municipal affairs, and became mayor of Poole and an alderman of the Dorset County Council.

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