1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gainsborough Constituency – Biography of Crookshank

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gainsborough

CANDIDATE : Crookshank

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. H. F. C. Crookshank won the division for the Conservatives in 1924 and has held it ever since. Born in Cairo and educated at Eton and Oxford he served in the Grenadier Guards in the 1914-18 war and was on the Embassy staff in Washington until 1924. He has been Undersecretary to the Home Office, Secretary for Mines, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Postmaster-General, and chairman of the Conservative agricultural group. He is a bachelor, and aged 57.

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html