1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Preston South Constituency – Biography of Shackleton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Preston South

CANDIDATE : Shackleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. A. Shackle-ton, son of the famous explorer, and himself the organizer and surveyor of the Oxford University expedition to Ellesmere Land in 1934-35, entered Parliament in 1946, at a by-election, and became Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Supply. Born in 1911 and educated at Radley and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was a wing commander in the R.A.F. intelligence service in the war. He has given special attention to industrial organization in the cotton industry.

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