1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon West Constituency – Biography of Thompson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon West

CANDIDATE : Thompson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. M. Thompson, aged 37, is a erector of two pub-“stung companies. He *as educated in India, «urma, and Ceylon, and alter leaving school worked in Calcutta. He enhsted in the Royal £avy as an ordinary seaman m 1940, and rose robelieutenant-comman-u<, o was serving in HM.s Hermione in wh;i en the shiP was attacked and sunk wwie on Malta convoy work.

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