1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shoreditch and Finsbury Constituency – Biography of Platts-Mills

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shoreditch and Finsbury

CANDIDATE : Platts-Mills

PARTY : Ind.Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. F. F. Platts-Mills entered Parliament in 1945 as Labour member for Finsbury. He early took an independent line on many questions, especially in foreign affairs and finally was expelled from the party in 1948, since when he has described himself as a Labour Independent. He was born in New Zealand in 1906 and educated at the Victoria University there and later at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is a barrister.

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