1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne Central Constituency – Biography of Wilkes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle upon Tyne Central

CANDIDATE : Wilkes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Wilkes is a barrister on the North Eastern Circuit and was born in 1914. He was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was chairman of the University Labour Club in 1937. In the war he saw service with the Greek rebels operating behind the German lines, and rose to the rank of major.

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