1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Stechford Constituency – Biography of Jenkins

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Stechford

CANDIDATE : Jenkins

PARTY : Lab

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Jenkins entered Parliament in 1948 for Central South-wark, a seat which disappeared under the redistribution. Aged 30, he is a son of a former M.P. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and was later engaged on intelligence work. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was secretary and librarian of the Oxford Union, He has written a biography of Mr. Attlee.

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