1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hove Constituency – Biography of Rea

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hove

CANDIDATE : Rea

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. R. Rea comes of a family with a long Liberal tradition; both his father, the first Lord Rea of Eskdale, and his grandfather, Mr. Russell Rea, sat in Parliament for many years. Mr. Rea, aged 42, has been a Socialist for 15 years, and is chairman of the Labour Party in Battle, where he keeps an hotel. During the war he served five years in the Intelligence Corps.

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