1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bilston Constituency – Biography of Nally

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bilston

CANDIDATE : Nally

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Nally, a journalist, born in 1914, served as a war correspondent in north-west Europe, after having been discharged from the R.A. as medically unfit. At the age of 17 he was appointed leader of the Labour Youth movement in Manchester. He won Bilston in 1945 and became Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning and secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s Common Wealth Group.

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