1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Weston-super-Mare Constituency – Biography of Orr-Ewing

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Weston-super-Mare

CANDIDATE : Orr-Ewing

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewing won Weston-super-Mare in a by-election in 1934, He has been Parliamentary private secretary to five Ministers and was a member of the Rhode-sian – Nyasaland Royal Commission. Born in 1893 and educated at Harrow and Oxford, he was A.D.C. to the General commanding the 20th Division in France, where he was wounded, in the 1914-18 war, and afterwards studied farming in West Cornwall.

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