1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brighouse and Spenborough Constituency – Biography of Woolley

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighouse and Spenborough

CANDIDATE : Woolley

PARTY : Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. E. Woolley, who was born in 1901, was National Liberal M.P. for Spen Valley. 1940-45, being defeated at the last election. A native of Blackburn, he is 49, and joint managing director of a firm of manufacturing chemists. In the war, he was on the headquarters staff of South-Eastern Command and later Western Command, reaching the rank of major. He has held many offices in Methodism.

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