British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Watson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Watson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Watson, full-time leader of the dockers, lightermen, and seamen in the Port of London, began work as a messenger at Canning Town, where he attended Star Lane School. At 16 he became an apprentice lighterman, and later was a foreman lighterman and afterwards mate of a tug.


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