1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bridgwater Constituency – Biography of King-Hall

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bridgwater

CANDIDATE : King-Hall

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. S. King-Hall, author, playwright, and broadcaster, was first returned for Orms-kirk in 1939 as a National Labour member. In 1945, standing as an Independent, he lost the seat to Mr. H. Wilson. Born in 1893, a son of Admiral Sir G. King-Hall, he served in the 1914-18 war with Admiral Beatty’s Battle Cruiser Squadron, and took part in the Battle of Jutland. Later he was appointed to the Naval Staff. He retired in [929, and took charge of the research department of the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs. In the late war he worked with the Ministry of Aircraft Production and in the fuel economy campaign. He founded the Hansard Society.

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