1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rowley Regis and Tipton Constituency – Biography of Barnes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rowley Regis and Tipton

CANDIDATE : Barnes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. B. J. Barnes is a garage proprietor. He was born in 1909 and served as a quartermaster in the Army in the early days of the war. He went through the Dunkirk evacuation, and in the Middle East in 1942 was commissioned and became a major. Before the war he was a journalist in the Midlands, and now owns a transport business in Black-heath.

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