1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockton-on-Tees Constituency – Biography of Chetwynd
CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stockton-on-Tees
CANDIDATE : Chetwynd
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. R. Chetwynd won Stockton for the Labour Party in 1945, defeating Mr. Harold Macmillan. A miner’s son, he was born in 1916 and won scholarships to a grammar school and King’s College, London University. He became a captain in the Army Education Corps during the war, and in Parliament has been private secretary to Mr. Dalton, when the latter was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
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