1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Skipton Constituency – Biography of Drayson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Skipton

CANDIDATE : Drayson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. B. Drayson has represented the Skipton division since 1945. He was born in 1913 and became a member of the London Stock Exchange in 1935. He is a director of two textile firms and a member of the Royal Agricultural Society. He served in the Army during the war, was taken prisoner in the Western Desert, and escaped by walking 500 miles across German-occupied country.

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