1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brighton Kemptown Constituency – Biography of Huddart

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighton Kemptown

CANDIDATE : Huddart

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. T. Huddart, aged 38, is a school-piaster. A native of North Shields, he joined the Merchant Service and has a second mate’s certificate. Leaving the sea he became a teacher and entered the service of the Brighton Education Committee. During the war he served on the Northern Patrol, in Norway and at Cherbourg. He was at Singapore, where he made a last-minute escape in a dinghy. In East Africa later he was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander.

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