British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Truro Constituency – Biography of Brinton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Truro

CANDIDATE : Brinton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Brinton, aged 47, was educated at Haileybury, and is a London publisher. For many years before the war he was associated with the League of Nations Union, and is the author of several books. He has visited Spain several times, taking on one occasion an unofficial delegation from the British churches ; and in Jamaica he helped to found a Council for Civil Liberties. In the later years of the war he had a farm near Totnes.


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