1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Hallam Constituency – Biography of Jennings

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Hallam

CANDIDATE : Jennings

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Jennings, who has held Hallam since the 1939 by-election, is 55 and an accountant practising in London and Sunderland. An officer in The Durham Light Infantry in the 1914-18 war, he was wounded in France. Formerly M.P. for Sedgefield (Durham), he was defeated there in 1935.

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