1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth West Constituency – Biography of Cranborne

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bournemouth West

CANDIDATE : Cranborne

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscount Cranborne, born in 1916, is heir to the Marquess of Salisbury, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords. On leaving Oxford, he joined The Grenadier Guards and served from 1939 to 1945 with the Guards Armoured Division and was wounded. Later he was Military Assistant to Mr. Harold Macmillan when Resident Minister in North Africa. Since the war he has studied farming and estate management.

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