1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Handsworth Constituency – Biography of Roberts

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Handsworth

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Roberts, who first entered Parliament in 1945, is a solicitor with a long record of public service in Birmingham. He was Lord Mayor in 1936. During his term of office he launched the final appeal which realized £250,000 and made possible the completion of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He is a life governor of Birmingham University.

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