British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorking Constituency – Biography of Francis

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorking

CANDIDATE : Francis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Francis was born at Woodford, Essex, in 1893. After serving in the ranks in the 1914-18 war, he became a retail and wholesale newsagent at Carshalton, where he lives and?controls a business. He was elected to Carshalton Urban Council in 1939, and was chairman in 1944-46. He is president of the Carshalton Municipal Ratepayers’ Association and chairman of the Carshalton National Savings Committee.


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