1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Breconshire and Radnorshire Constituency – Biography of Gibson-Watt

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Breconshire and Radnorshire

CANDIDATE : Gibson-Watt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. D. Gibson-Watt, is 34 and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He is farming in Radnorshire and is a member of the Welsh Land Settlement Society and the Radnorshire County Council. He served with the Welsh Guards in North Africa in the war, and won the Military Cross and two bars. He finished the war as instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is fifth in descent from James Watt, inventor of the steam engine.

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