1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Abertillery Constituency – Biography of Lewis

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Abertillery

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. O. J. Lewis, a farmer, who comes of a’Baptist and Liberal family, was born in 1913, and had a grammar school education. He is a member of Abergavenny U.D.C. A founder of Abergavenny Young Farmers’ Club, he has been a member of the county executive committee and chairman of the local branch of the National Farmers’ Union. He is chairman of the county point-to-point committee and local secretary for the British Field Sports Society.

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