1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reading North Constituency – Biography of Marling

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Reading North

CANDIDATE : Marling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir J. S. V. Marling, only son of Sir Charles Marling, a former British Minister in?Denmark and Holland, was born in 1910. Commissioned in the 17/21st Lancers, his Army and other travels took him before the war to most European countries and to Asia. He fought in Italy, helped to plan D Day, and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He wrote the history of the closing stages of the Eighth Army’s Italian campaign. He retired from the Army in 1947.

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