1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedford Constituency – Biography of Skeffington-Lodge

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Skeffington-Lodge

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Bedfordshire’s first Labour member, is the son of a farmer and jointly owns with his sister a 2,000-acre farm in Yorkshire. A bachelor, aged 45, he was chairman of the divisional Labour Party at Pudsey and Otley. He took the lead in forming a group of the Socialist Christian League in the House of Commons.

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