1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gower Constituency – Biography of Grenfell

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gower

CANDIDATE : Grenfell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Grenfell, born in 1881, went to work underground as a miner at the age of 12 and continued until lie was 35. He was appointed a miners’ agent in 1916, was first elected as member for Gower in 1922, and has represented the division since. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Safety in Mines in 1936, and was Secretary for Mines from 1940 to 1942.

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