British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southgate Constituency – Biography of Baxter

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southgate

CANDIDATE : Baxter

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Beverley Baxter, journalist, author and critic, was born in Toronto in 1891, and served in the Canadian Expedi?ionary Force in the 1914-18 war. During the second world war he acted as Controller of Aircraft Factory Cooperation under Lord Beaverbrook. He represented the old Wood Green constituency from 1935.


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