1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dudley Constituency – Biography of Farran

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dudley

CANDIDATE : Farran

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. R. A. Farran was born in India in 1921 and educated there and at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the 3rd Hussars, and in an adventurous service career gained many decorations including the American Legion of Merit and the Croix de Guerre. In 1948 he went to Southern Rhodesia, where he is a director of several companies, returning in October last after offering to contest Dudley for the Conservatives.

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