1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burton Constituency – Biography of Lyne

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Burton

CANDIDATE : Lyne

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Lyne, who was born in 1884, represented Burton in the last Parliament, having a majority of 760 votes. Until 1914 he was a boot and shoe operative, and after four years’ service in the 1914-18 war became an officer of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. The first chairman of the Northampton Labour Party, he was mayor of that borough for the year 1938-39, and is an alderman. He has been a member since 1920.

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