1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Petersfield Constituency – Biography of Jeffreys

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Petersfield

CANDIDATE : Jeffreys

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir George Jeffreys has represented the division since 1941. Aged 71, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and saw 41 years’ service in the Army. He was mentioned in dispatches nine times in the first war, and holds many foreign decorations. He is Deputy Lieutenant and a county alderman of Hampshire, and has been a member of the county council since 1926; is chairman of the Hampshire T.A. Association.

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