1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wycombe Constituency – Biography of Astor

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wycombe

CANDIDATE : Astor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. W. Astor won East Fulham in 1935 and represented the constituency in Parliament until 1945. The eldest son of Viscount Astor, he was born in 1907, and on leaving Oxford travelled in the Far East for the Institute of Pacific Relations, worked with the Pilgrim Trust, and was secretary to Lord Lytton when the commission of inquiry on Manchuria visited China. He joined the R.N.V.R.. in 1938 and served in the Middle East. He is keenly interested in agriculture, and farms in Buckinghamshire.

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