1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southport Constituency – Biography of Hudson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southport

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. S. Hudson, who has represented Southport since 1931—he was M.P. for Whitehaven, 1924-29 — held many Ministerial appointments and was Minister of Agriculture from 1940 to 1945. He was born in 1886, educated at Eton and Oxford, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1911, resigning in 1923 to enter politics. Keenly interested in farming, he is a member of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society.

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