1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Torquay Constituency – Biography of Townend

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Torquay

CANDIDATE : Townend

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. S. Townend, who was educated at St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury, and Brase-nose College, Oxford, was commissioned in 1933, and held the appointment of A.Q.M.G. during the war. He is an English international and Empire Games champion. He is now a director of an international publishing company and of an international school in Switzerland and a director and founder of the Anglo-Swiss Society of Great Britain. He was for 10 years on Paddington Council.

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