British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cleveland Constituency – Biography of Peake

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cleveland

CANDIDATE : Peake

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Peake, who contested the Blaydon division in the last election against the Labour Chief Whip, is a brother of Mr. O. Peake, M.P. for North Leeds. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he is a barrister. During the war he saw considerable service as an intelligence officer with the R.A.F. in the Middle East.


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