1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bishop Auckland Constituency – Biography of Lambton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bishop Auckland

CANDIDATE : Lambton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscount Lambton, aged 27, is the heir to the Earl of Durham. During the war he served for a time in The Hampshire Regiment, but was invalided out. He then took up war work in a Wallsend factory. In 1945 he was chairman of the Young Conservative organization in the northern area, comprising Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland, and he was a member of Durham County Council from 1947 to 1949, when he did not seek re-election. He was educated at Harrow.

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