1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Grantham Constituency – Biography of Kendall

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Grantham

CANDIDATE : Kendall

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. D. Kendall, chartered engineer, was chairman and managing director during the war of British Manufacturing and Research Co., makers of high-speed cannon for ground and aircraft; and subsequently managing director of a Grantham company which sponsored the ” people’s car ” project. He is a freeman of the City of London and Chevalier of l’Ordre du Ouissam Alouite Cherifien. He has represented Grantham since 1942. He was born at Halifax in 1903, and studied engineering at a United States university.

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