1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northampton Constituency – Biography of Paget

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northampton

CANDIDATE : Paget

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. T. Paget, K.C., is the elder son of Major T. Guy Paget, former Conservative M.P. for Market Bosworth. He graduated at Cambridge University and took an honours degree in law and economics. He was called to the Bar in 1934, took silk in 1947, and defended Field-Marshal von Manstein in the last of the German war trials. He joined the Labour Party in 1929, and was returned for Northampton in 1945.

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