1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southend East Constituency – Biography of Runciman

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southend East

CANDIDATE : Runciman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. J. G. Runciman is a retired Army officer, who was born in 1895 and educated at Kirkwall Burgh School and Glasgow University. He served in the Royal Scots and Royal Tank Regiment, 1915-47. He is secretary to the Essex Growers’ Trading Association. A relative of the late Viscount Runciman, the Liberal statesman, he was first chairman of the Southend East Liberal Association.

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