British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Central Constituency – Biography of Grant-Ferris

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Central

CANDIDATE : Grant-Ferris

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Grant-Ferris, born in 1907, followed the family business of estate agents and surveyors, and was called to the Bar in t936. In the same year he won a by-election in North St. Pancras, and sat for that constituency until 1945. He served in the Air Force in Malta and in Egypt, and after demobilization ‘n 1943 returned to Parliament and was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. W. S. Morrison, Minister of Town and Country Planning until the 1945 General Election.


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