1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Willesden East Constituency – Biography of Hammersley

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Willesden East

CANDIDATE : Hammersley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. S. Hammersley, chairman of a Lancashire cotton-spinning firm, is 57, and was M.P. for Stockport, 1924-35. He did not seek re-election, for business reasons, but was returned for E. Willesden in the 1938 by-election, and defeated in 1945. He was wounded in Gallipoli in the 1914-18 war.

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