1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Jackson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newbury

CANDIDATE : Jackson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Jackson is 27 and lives in London. Educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School, he served during the war in India, the Middle East, Italy, and Germany, and has since studied law at Oxford and taken a degree in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, he was secretary of the Labour Club, treasurer of the Union, and secretary of the University Law Society. A member of the Oxford University debating team which toured South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya, he also led a British team to India, Pakistan, and Ceylon under the British Council, and has just returned from a debating tour for the English Speaking Union in the United States and Canada.

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