1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rossendale Constituency – Biography of Backhouse

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rossendale

CANDIDATE : Backhouse

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. M. Backhouse, a barrister on the Northern Circuit, is 46, and a member of a well-known Lancashire family of lawyers. During the war he was a colonel in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, was later on the D Day invasion planning staff, and was also chief prosecutor at the Belsen trials.

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