1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Broxtowe Constituency – Biography of Cocks

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Broxtowe

CANDIDATE : Cocks

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Seymour Cocks has held Broxtowe since 1929 and is a former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Group of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Born in 1882 and educated at Plymouth College, he is an author and journalist who joined the Labour Party in 1917. A member of the National Council for the Prevention of War, he has served on Parliamentary delegations to Greece, Italy, and the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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