1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Winchester Constituency – Biography of Smithers

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Winchester

CANDIDATE : Smithers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. H. B. Smithers, a barrister of 37, educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained first – class honours, is a lieutenant-commander in the London Division, R.N.V.R. During the war he was assistant Naval Attache at the British Embassy in Washington ; an acting Naval Attache in Mexico. He has been a member of the Winchester R.D.C.

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