British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birkenhead Constituency – Biography of Collick

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birkenhead

CANDIDATE : Collick

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. H. Collick, born in 1897, was a footplate man on the old L. and S.W. Railway. He became assistant general secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers in 1939. Elected to Parliament in 1945 for West Birken-head, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture until 1947, when he resigned for health reasons.


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