1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Sutton Constituency – Biography of Middleton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Plymouth Sutton

CANDIDATE : Middleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Lucy Middleton, member for this constituency since 1945, stood for South Padding-ton in 1931 and Pudsey and Otley in 1935. Bom in a Somerset village in 1894, she became a teacher in Bristol and Gloucestershire and an active worker in the Labour cause. In the conferences and inquiries from which the India Act, 1935, emerged she acted as political adviser of Hindu minorities. In 1936 she married Mr. J. S. Middleton, a former national secretary of the Labour Party.

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