1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southall Constituency – Biography of Purton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southall

CANDIDATE : Purton

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Purton was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School and at Oxford and served six years in the Army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and gained the Military Cross. He is a teacher in Pinner County Grammar School.

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