1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Hillsborough Constituency – Biography of Darling

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Hillsborough

CANDIDATE : Darling

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Darling, former railway worker, born in Crewe in 1906, began work at 14, joined the A.E.U. and became a national figure in the Labour youth movement. Through the W.E.A. he won a scholarship to Liverpool University, and later graduated in economics at Cambridge. In 1930 he took charge of the research department of the C.W.S. When war broke out he joined the B.B.C. reporting team and is the industrial correspondent.

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