1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset South Constituency – Biography of Rawson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset South

CANDIDATE : Rawson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. R. Rawson, a Dorset school master, claims a strong Liberal ancestry. One of his forbears was guillotined as a Girondin in the French Revolution, and his grandfather was Gladstone’s private secretary. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was studying in Germany on the outbreak of the 1914-18 war and was interned as a civilian prisoner. He began teaching, which he continued in the United States, after the war. Back in England, he was for seven years secretary of the New Education Fellowship. He is now master of studies at a girls’ public school in Dorset. Mr. Rawson is a member of the Dorset Liberal Council.

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