1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Ladywood Constituency – Biography of Bennett

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Ladywood

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. M. Bennett, aged 31, who contested Burslem as a Liberal National in 1945, is a barrister practising on the Midland Circuit. He served in the war with The Middlesex Yeomanry, and in 1940 was commissioned in the Royal Artillery. Later he became a military experimental officer in the Petroleum Warfare Department and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He has travelled widely and is interested in foreign affairs. In the campaign against the Greek rebels he served as an observer for the Greek Government.

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