1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Exeter Constituency – Biography of Maude

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Exeter

CANDIDATE : Maude

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr.J.C. Maude, K.C., entered Parliament for Exeter in 1945. He is a son of Sir Cyril Maude, the actor, and was born in 1901. . Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 1925. From 1939 until 1944 he was Recorder of Devizes, and then became Recorder of Plymouth. He took silk in 1943. At the outbreak of the second world war he became an officer in the Intelligence Corps, serving in this country and for 12 months in Washington as security officer for various British missions. Returning to England in 1942, he was employed in the Cabinet offices.

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