1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gillingham Constituency – Biography of Burden

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gillingham

CANDIDATE : Burden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. A. Burden, who is engaged in the .y * ?’^>…. import and export busi- *§T ness, was born in 1905 hi and educated at Chelsea. During the last war he served in the R.A.F., first with a Polish unit, afterwards with Eastern 1 Air Command, and later on Lord Louis Mount-batten’s staff. He has three times previously sought to enter Parliament. He was at one time British schools boxing champion.

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