1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset North Constituency – Biography of Byers

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset North

CANDIDATE : Byers

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Byers, Liberal Chief Whip in the last Parliament, won North Dorset from the Conservatives in 1945 for the first time in 21 years Aged 34, he was educated at Westminster College (he was the first exchange scholar with Milton Academy, Massachusetts) and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in politics, philosophy, and economics, and was a champion hurdler. In 1939 he enlisted as a private, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served on the General Staff of 21 Army Group under Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery. He is a farmer and a law student at Gray’s Inn.

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