1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wood Green Constituency – Biography of Irving

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wood Green

CANDIDATE : Irving

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Irving, a former chairman of the Middlesex County Council, became M.P. for North Tottenham in December, 1945, after having been agent there for Mr. R. C. (now Lord) Morrison. The constituency disappeared under the new distribution. Born on April 1, 1892, he started work as a stevedore at Workington docks and later,was a trade union organizer. He was on the committee responsible for merging 13 unions into the Transport and General Workers Union. He was a borough councillor at 23.

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html