1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reading South Constituency – Biography of Mikardo

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Reading South

CANDIDATE : Mikardo

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Mikardo, who won Reading in 1945, frequently took an independent line in Parliament, sometimes to the extent of voting against the Government. He was born at Portsmouth in 1908 and engaged in teaching journalism and translation work before specializing in commercial and industrial problems and becoming an industrial consultant. He is hon. treasurer of the Fabian Society and on the executive of the Association of Supervisory Staffs and Engineering Technicians.

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