1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huddersfield East Constituency – Biography of Mallalieu

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huddersfield East

CANDIDATE : Mallalieu

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu was elected for Huddersfield in 1945. He has been Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Food and the Secretary of State for Air. He served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945, and wrote several books on his experiences. Aged 41, he was president of the Oxford Union in 1930, and an Oxford Rugby blue. He later worked for a number of years as a London journalist.

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