1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Shields Constituency – Biography of Ede

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : South Shields

CANDIDATE : Ede

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Chuter Ede, Home Secretary, was member for S. Shields 1,929-31, and afterwards from 1935. He first entered Parliament as M.P. for Mitcham, 1923. Educated at elementary and secondary schools and Christ’s College, Cambridge, he has been a teacher. He served on Epsom U.D.C. and was charter mayor of Epsom and Ewell, 1937. For many years also he was a Surrey County Councillor and deputy lieutenant for Surrey, 1931. For five years in the war Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education and became a Privy ^Council lor in 1944.

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