1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Totnes Constituency – Biography of Rayner

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Totnes

CANDIDATE : Rayner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. R. H. Rayner began his career in the diplomatic service but on the declaration of war in 1914 he went into the Army, transferring to the Indian Army in 1917. In 1928 he went as A.D.C. to Lord Willingdon when the latter was Governor-General of Canada. He also served in the last war. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and in 1931 was secretary to the British Arctic Expedition to Greenland. Entering Parliament as member for Totnes in 1935, he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Pensions.

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