British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Bent

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southwark

CANDIDATE : Bent

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. P. Bent, a war-time Army captain, and now a clerk, has been prominent in leading Southwark tenants in their movements for better housing. He won scholarships from a Southwark elementary school to London University, and worked for a time in the architects department of the borough council.


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