British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Grimsby Constituency – Biography of Younger

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Grimsby

CANDIDATE : Younger

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. G. Younger, appointed Under-Secre-tary, Home Office in 1947, is son of the 2nd Viscount Younger of Leckie. Born in 1908 he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, 1932. In the war he served as major in the Intelligence Corps in N. Africa and W. Europe. As an M.P. was chairman of the European Committee of Unrra, 1946-47, and on the United Kingdom delegations to the United Nations.


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