British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury St Edmunds Constituency – Biography of McCall

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bury St Edmunds

CANDIDATE : McCall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss C. McCall is 49 and the daughter of the late Sir Robert McCall, K..C. First woman in Britain trained as a psychiatric social worker, she holds hospital appointments. She has worked in prisons and Borstal institutions, and wrote a book on women’s prisons. Miss McCall has also been educational organizer to the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. She fought the seat in 1945.


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