1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South Constituency – Biography of Mayhew

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk South

CANDIDATE : Mayhew

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. P. Mayhew, who won the seat in 1945, was appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1946 and retained the post to the end of the Parliament. Son of a former High Sheriff of Norfolk, he was educated at Haileybury and Oxford, where he won the University Economics Prize and became president of the Union. Joining the Territorial Army after Munich, he landed in France in 1939 and later served in Africa and Sicily with the commando detachment of the ” Phantom ” regiment, and with special forces from Normandy to the Baltic.

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