1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stratford-on-Avon Constituency – Biography of Profumo

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stratford-on-Avon

CANDIDATE : Profumo

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. D. Profumo was member for the Kettering division from 1940 to 1945, but lost the seat at the last General Election. He was born in 1915, and educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford. During the last war he was air staff officer at Field-Marshal Lord Alexander’s headquarters in Italy, and crossed the Alps to bring the German plenipotentiaries to sign the unconditional surrender terms in Italy. Later he was Chief of Staff to the United Kingdom Mission in Japan.

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