1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chippenham Constituency – Biography of Eccles

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chippenham

CANDIDATE : Eccles

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Eccles became M.P. for Chippenham in 1943 at a by-election, and has since been one of the more prominent Opposition back – bench speakers. Previously associated with the Central Mining Corporation in London and Johannesburg, he took over the Spain and Portugal departments of the Ministry of Economic Warfare on the outbreak of war. Later he negotiated a trade agreement in Madrid and became economic adviser to the British Ambassadors in Madrid and Lisbon before being transferred to the Ministry of Production. Born in 1904, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford.

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