1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horncastle Constituency – Biography of Maitland

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horncastle

CANDIDATE : Maitland

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. J. F. W. Maitland, member for the division since 1945, served in the Royal Navy until 1934, when he was retired after injuries. He rejoined the Navy in 1939 and was a gunnery officer on the submarine staff. He has actiyely engaged in local life in Essex, for which he has been deputy lieutenant, and was also a verderer of Epping Forest, and in Parliament was chairman of the Conservative sub-committee on education. He was born in London in 1903.

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