1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland South Constituency – Biography of Wilkinson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sunderland South

CANDIDATE : Wilkinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Wilkinson belongs to a family which has been connected with transport for 200 years, going back to the time of the keel men on the Wear. Until they were taken over by the Road Transport Executive he was managing director of a firm of haulage contractors and is now chairman of the Northern area Road Haulage Wages Board and of the Northern Area Road-Rail Conference. Born in 1893, he was wounded at Arras in the 1914-18 war.

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