1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Brightside Constituency – Biography of Winterbottom

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Brightside

CANDIDATE : Winterbottom

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Winterbottom is 50, and was born at Oldham, where he began work in the Co-operative Society’s grocery store. Then he took up trade union and political work, becoming liaison officer between the Co-operative and Labour Parties. In 1944 he became national organizer of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers. Chairman of Oldham Repertory Theatre, he is a W.E.A. lecturer.

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