1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Droylsden Constituency – Biography of Woods

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Droylsden

CANDIDATE : Woods

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. G. S. Woods, who was born in 1886, entered Parliament as Labour M.P. for Fins-bury in 1935 and was returned for Mossley in 1945. He was President of the Yorkshire Unitarian Union in 1932-34. He has been chairman of the local Labour Parties at Taunton and York, and he is on the national executive of the Cooperative movement, and a director of the Co-operative Press. He has served on the York City Council.

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