British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Preston North Constituency – Biography of Hemelryk

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Preston North

CANDIDATE : Hemelryk

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. Hemelryk, whose mother is a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, was born in 1889, and educated at Stonyhurst and Oxford. After serving in the first world war he was called to the Bar in 1917 and practised in Liverpool and Preston for many years. For the past four years he has been chairman of the Preston Liberal Association.


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