1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Colne Valley Constituency – Biography of Hall

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Colne Valley

CANDIDATE : Hall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Glenvil Hall, first sitting in Parliament as member for Portsmouth in 1929, has represented Colne Valley since 1939. He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury throughout the last Parliament. A Herefordshire man, he was born in 1887. and was wounded and mentioned in dispatches in the 1914-18 war. He was for some time finance officer of the Labour Party. He is a Quaker.

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