1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Belper Constituency – Biography of Lawrie

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Belper

CANDIDATE : Lawrie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. Lawrie, aged 47, director and editor of a technical journal, was trained as an industrial chemist and worked in the coal and sugar industries. He was commissioned in a Territorial Anti-Aircraft Regiment before the war, and during the war he commanded a Home Guard anti-aircraft unit in Hyde Park, and was senior censor of scientific publications at the Ministry of Information.

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