1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Portsmouth Langstone Constituency – Biography of Knight

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Portsmouth Langstone

CANDIDATE : Knight

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Knight, born 1891, is national organizer of the National Seamen’s Union. Has been an errand boy, an engine cleaner on the G.W.R. at Newport (Mon.), a docker, and a seaman. He joined the I.L.P. in 1910 and transferred in 1933 to the Labour Party, and is a member of its national executive. In 1942 he was district secretary for the Mersey area of the National Seamen’s Union.

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