1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ashton-under-Lyne Constituency – Biography of Rhodes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ashton-under-Lyne

CANDIDATE : Rhodes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Rhodes contested the Royton division unsuccessfully at the »dst general election, but pi *. months later was elected for Ashton at a °y-election. He has been * member of the Parliamentary Textile Commit-£e and the trade and ndustry groups in Par-“dment, and accom- Parliamentary ndTS t0 Austr’a Afi-‘ Japan and an economic mission to a tT?:. Aged 54> he is managing director of tliencn ? In the 1914-18 war he won c u.kc and bar.

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