1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Farnham Constituency – Biography of Nicholson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Farnham

CANDIDATE : Nicholson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Godfrey Nicholson, member of a firm of distillers, was born in 1901 and educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1931 for Morpeth, where he turned a Labour majority of 16,500 into a Conservative majority of over 1,000, being the first Conservative to win the seat. Defeated in 1935, he was Teturned for Farnham in 1937 and re-elected in 1945. While M.P. for Morpeth, he introduced and secured the p?s age of the Workmen’s Compensation (Coal Mines) Act, 1934. He has twice visited India, and during the war served with the Royal Fusiliers and the Commandos.

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