1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Edgbaston Constituency – Biography of Hobson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Edgbaston

CANDIDATE : Hobson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Hobson, a Birmingham man born in 1899, won a foundation scholarship at King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham, at the age of 10. After employment in an export merchant’s office and service in the first war, he was for 20 years chief clerk in a manufacturing concern. Last year he was appointed a lecturer in health education in the schools by Birmingham Health Department.

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