British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds South Constituency – Biography of Wood

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds South

CANDIDATE : Wood

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. H. Wood, who is in the wholesale clothing trade in Leeds, was born there in 1910. A member of Harrogate Town Council and of the West Riding Divisional Education Executive, he is a governor of Harrogate Grammar School. In the war he was an R-A.O.C. major in the Rhine Army and now commands the R.A.O.C. 50th Infantry Division, T.A.


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