1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Farnham Constituency – Biography of Shannon

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Farnham

CANDIDATE : Shannon

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. P. Shannon was educated at the City of London School and in Australia, joining the Australian Army in 1914 and serving in Gallipoli and France. He was badly wounded in 1918, and later returned to Australia as a sheep farmer. Back in England in 1934 he became an official of the Ministry of Labour. For a time he edited an international youth newspaper printed in seven languages. Serving in the last war, he was invalided out in 1941, became labour manager for a radio firm, and deputy chief for civil defence in the North-West Region. He was elected to Blackburn Borough Council in 1945, resigning to join the Ministry of Labour staff in London.

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