1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Scarborough and Whitby Constituency – Biography of Sykes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Scarborough and Whitby

CANDIDATE : Sykes

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. W. Sykes, born in Doncaster in 1915, was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Oxford University, where he read law and was president of Pembroke College Law Society. For five years a grammar school teacher at Wellingborough and Northampton, he was called to the Bar in 1945, and has practised on the Northern Circuit. He is also a practical farmer, and a member of the Campaign Committee of the Yorkshire Liberal Federation.

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