British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walsall Constituency – Biography of Wells

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walsall

CANDIDATE : Wells

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Wells, a barrister, was born in 1908, and educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Labour Party in 1930, and is a member of the Fabian Society and of the Society of Labour Lawyers. As a major in the Army from 1940 and 1945, he was engaged on work for the War Office, and is an authority on international law.


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