1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Brooke

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hampstead

CANDIDATE : Brooke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Brooke, leader of the Conservative Party on the L.C.C. since 1945, was M.P. for West Lewis-ham from 1938 to 1945. He had a large part in organizing the Conservative successes in the 1949 L.C.C. elections which produced a ” dead heat.” He was deputy chairman of the Southern Railway until nationalization, and is a member of the governing bodies of Marlborough and Charterhouse, and of the court of London University. Since 1944 he has served on the General Housing Advisory Committee. He is 46.

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