1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clitheroe Constituency – Biography of Fort

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Clitheroe

CANDIDATE : Fort

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Fort, aged 41, an industrial chemist, contested the division in 1945, and his grandfather and uncle were M.P.s for Clitheroe. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he took B.Sc, and in 1935 joined Imperial Chemical Industries, becoming president of I.C.I. (New York) Limited, in 1938. After service with the British Purchasing Commission in the United States he was with the Ministry of Supply, and is technical consultant to I.C.I.

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