1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedford Constituency – Biography of Matthews

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Matthews

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. B. Matthews was presented at the Coronation Court in 1936, and then gave up society life and joined the Communist Party. Thirty-five years of age, she studied at the London School of Economics. After her marriage to Mr. G. Matthews, a former Labour candidate in Mid-Bedfordshire, she became an active Communist locally, and is now a member of the national executive of the Party.

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