1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Portsmouth West Constituency – Biography of Clarke

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Portsmouth West

CANDIDATE : Clarke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. T. H. Clarke was born in India in 1904, and was educated at Haileybury and Sandhurst. In the 1939 war he served at Narvik and in North Africa, France and Germany, and was three times mentioned in dispatches and became Deputy Director of Ordnance Services. He has boxed for the Army as a heavyweight and has played rugby for the Harlequins and the Army.

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