1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds West Constituency – Biography of Mather

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds West

CANDIDATE : Mather

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Mather, who reduced the Labour majority in West Leeds by 10,000 at the by-election in July, 1949, was born in Leeds in 1914. Ed ucated at Leeds University, he became a schoolmaster, but left that profession to enter the family beer and wine business. During the war he worked for the Admiralty on research into magnetic and acoustic mines.

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