British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Lloyd

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wirral

CANDIDATE : Lloyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, K..C., first elected for Wirral in 1945, was born at West Kirby in 1904. At Cambridge he won an open classical scholarship, and was called to the Bar in 1930. During the war he was a brigadier on the General Staff of the Second Army. A K.C. in 1941, he became Recorder of Wigan in 1948, and has been chairman of Hoylake council. He was President of the Cambridge Union in 1927.


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