1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sutton Coldfield Constituency – Biography of Mellor

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sutton Coldfield

CANDIDATE : Mellor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir John Mellor, who won the constituency in 1945, had previously sat for the Tamworth division since 1935. Born in 1893, he was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, and is a barrister of the Inner Temple. He was taken prisoner of war by the Turks at Kut in the 1914-18 war. He is a director of an assurance company.

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