British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Taunton Constituency – Biography of Hopkinson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Taunton

CANDIDATE : Hopkinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Hopkinson, born in 1902, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, had a long career in the diplomatic service from 1924, serving in Washington, Cairo, Athens, and Lisbon, and was Deputy High Commissioner in Italy in 1944. After the war he took up farming in Devon and also became head of the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat.


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