1950 GENERAL ELECTION : East Grinstead Constituency – Biography of Clarke

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : East Grinstead

CANDIDATE : Clarke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. R. S. Clarke has been M.P. for East Grinstead since 1936. Born in 1892, he was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge. He joined the Sussex Yeomanry in 1914 and served in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine, being wounded. In 1939 he rejoined the Army and served in the Middle East and Sicily. He has extensive business interests and is a large landowner in Mid-Sussex.

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