1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire West Constituency – Biography of Wakefield

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derbyshire West

CANDIDATE : Wakefield

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. B. Wakefield, born in 1903, was educated at Haileybury and Cambridge, and in 1927 entered the Indian Civil Service. He served in several Indian States as Chief Minister, and in 1946-47 worked under Lord Wavell and Lord Mountbatten. He is a brother of Sir W. W. Wakefield, and holds the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving life from drowning in 1933.

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