1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cornwall North Constituency – Biography of Roper

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cornwall North

CANDIDATE : Roper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Harold Roper is a native of Exeter and_ was awarded his rowing blue when he was at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He served for over 30 years on the administrative staff of an oil company in Burma and in India, where he was general manager. He served for some years in the Upper and Lower Houses of the Burma Legislature. During the first world war he served in France and Italy and was awarded the M.C. ; and in the second war he was responsible for maintaining oil supplies to the forces in Burma and for the demolition of oilfields and refineries during the retreat, and although a civilian was mentioned in dispatches. He was knighted in 1945.

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