British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Attercliffe Constituency – Biography of Farris

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Attercliffe

CANDIDATE : Farris

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Farris was born in London in 1905, and at 16 went to Belgium, working in an office for 18 months. Then he went into business with his father, and in 1933 joined a Sheffield wire manufacturers, and is now managing director. He was elected to Sheffield City Council in 1945, and is a freeman of the Cutlers’ Company, and on the executive committee of the Sheffield Philharmonic Society.


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