1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southall Constituency – Biography of Pargiter

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southall

CANDIDATE : Pargiter

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. Pargiter was member for Spel-thorne in the last Parliament. Born in 1897 and educated at Towcester Grammar School, he is an engineer and has held many offices in the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He was mayor of Southall for three years in succession and is leader of the Labour group on Middlesex County Council, of which he has been a member since 1934. He has accompanied Parliamentary delegations to Germany and Finland. Wounded at Gallipoli in the 1914-18 war, he was Civil Defence controller in Southall in the last war.

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