1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Accrington Constituency – Biography of Hynd

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Accrington

CANDIDATE : Hynd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Hynd was member for Central Hackney (now absorbed in South Hackney) in the last Parliament, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, and later to the Minister of Defence. Born in 1900 in Perth, he attended Perth Academy and, after working as a railway clerk, became a branch secretary of the Railway Clerks’ Association and later a member of the headquarters staff. He has served as councillor and alderman of Hornsey.

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