1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reading South Constituency – Biography of Rissik

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 : Rissik

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. C. Rissik comes of a South African family, but was born near Manchester in 1919. After leaving Harrow he read history at Oxford University and was elected to the executive of the Conservative Association there. Commissioned with The Durham Light Infantry in 1940, he served in India and Burma, including the first and second Arakan campaigns, and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He formed the Seer Green Conservative Association in Buckinghamshire and became its chairman. He is a lawyer.

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