1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southend West Constituency – Biography of Channon

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southend West

CANDIDATE : Channon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Channon was elected for Southend in 1935, when he succeeded Lady Iveagh, his mother-in-law. From 1938 to 1941 he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. R. A. Butler when Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and during the war went abroad on several missions. A director of a brewing firm, he is aged 50.

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