1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol North West Constituency – Biography of Braithwaite

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol North West

CANDIDATE : Braithwaite

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. J. Gurney Braithwaite represented the old Holderness division of East Yorkshire from 1939 to 1950 and sat as M.P. for the Hillsborough division of Sheffield from 1931 to 1935. Now a stockbroker, much of his earlier life was spent in the Navy, and in the 1914-18 war he took part in the Suvla Bay landing and the Palestine operations. In the last war he took part in the organization of convoys sailing from the Thames estuary.

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