British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holborn and St Pancras South Constituency – Biography of Jeger

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Holborn and St Pancras South

CANDIDATE : Jeger

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. S. W. Jeger, a medical practitioner since 1923, won the seat for the Labour Party in 1945. He is 51, and has been a member of Shore-ditch Borough Council since 1926, being mayor in 1930. Elected to the L.C.C. in 1931, he was returned again in 1934 and 1937. In 1946 he Was a member of a Parliamentary delegation to Austria. He visited Spain twice during the civil war on medical aid work for the republicans.


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