1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Twickenham Constituency – Biography of Keeling

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Twickenham

CANDIDATE : Keeling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. H. Keeling, M.P. for Twickenham since 1935, is a barrister and member of Lloyd’s. In the 1914-18 war he was captured by the Turks in Mesopotamia, but escaped across the Black Sea to Russia in a small boat. He retired from the Army as a lieutenant – colonel, and joined the R.A.F. in August, 1939. He was Mayor of Westminster in 1945-46, is Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of London, and on the executive committee of the National Trust.

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