1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Yardley Constituency – Biography of Usborne

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Yardley

CANDIDATE : Usborne

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. C. Usborne was M.P. for Acocks Green in the last Parliament. Aged 41, Mr. Usborne lived in the Punjab as a child, his father being in the Indian Civil Service. He gained an honours degree in engineering at Cambridge and in 1932 he started as an oil combustion engineer, founding a company of which he is now chairman. He is vice-president of the National Peace Council.

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