1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Torquay Constituency – Biography of Briscoe

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Torquay

CANDIDATE : Briscoe

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Briscoe, a Londoner, aged 34, is education secretary to Plymouth Co-operative Society. He has been an organizer for the National Council of Labour Colleges and has been lecturer for the Co-operative Union at summer schools. Born in 1914, he went to a secondary school and Oriel College, Oxford, and holds an Oxford University diploma for economics and political science.

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