1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Swindon Constituency – Biography of Reid

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Swindon

CANDIDATE : Reid

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Reid is a retired colonial administrator, having served in the Ceylon Civil Service from 1905 to 1931, and filled various judicial and administrative posts in the is?and, including special duty in connexion with the introduction of the new constitution, 1931. In 1933 he was appointed Financial Commissioner to report on the Seychelles Colony ; was chairman of the League of Nations Commission on the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 1937-38 ; and a member of the Palestine Partition Commission, 1938. He was elected for Swindon in 1945.

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