1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eccles Constituency – Biography of Jones

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eccles

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Jones, aged 39, studied at Bristol University and as a post-graduate at Oxford. For a time he was a Baptist minister at Wake-field, but gave up the Church to pursue social welfare work. He was a pioneer in the establishment of unemployment craft centres and old age pensioners’ clubs, and is a W.E.A. lecturer on sociology. During the war he served at Western Command.

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