British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire West Constituency – Biography of Houldsworth

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gloucestershire West

CANDIDATE : Houldsworth

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. H. B. Houldsworth was born in 1922 and was educated at Huddersfield Technical College and Leeds University, where he qualified as a doctor. Before being called up, Capt. Houldsworth was senior anaesthetist at Leeds General Infirmary, and he is now in the R.A.M.C. He comes from a family with a Liberal tradition, his father, Sir H. Houldsworth, K.C., having contested Pudsey and Otley in 1929, and his mother is a Liberal member of the West Riding County Council.


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