1950 GENERAL ELECTION : East Grinstead Constituency – Biography of Williamson

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 : Williamson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. C. E. Williamson was born in 1897, and taught Braille shorthand and typewriting to blind persons after the 1914-18 war. From 1925 to 1935, she was engaged in social service work in Canterbury and was elected to the City Council in the latter year. First woman mayor of Canterbury in 1938, she served until 1940, when she was injured in a bombing raid. She rejoined the council in 1942.

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