1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Totnes Constituency – Biography of Desch

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Totnes

CANDIDATE : Desch

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. H. Desch trained as a farm and forestry pupil and won the Beadel prize in agriculture of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He is a B.A., a B.Sc, and a D.Phil, of Oxford University, and was elected a Fellow of the Surveyors’ Institution in 1938. He has served in forestry in Nigeria and in Malaya, and is now in private practice as a timber consultant, and as a chartered surveyor on conversion schemes to ease the housing shortage. He served in the Federated Malay States Volunteers from 1933 to 1946 and was a prisoner of war of the Japanese from 1942 to 1945.

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