1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huntingdonshire Constituency – Biography of Thompson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huntingdonshire

CANDIDATE : Thompson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. F. Thompson, head of a firm of solicitors at Esher (Surrey), where he lives was born at Hounslow (Middlesex) in 1902 and educated at Hampton Grammar School. At 14, he started work as a clerk for a London legal firm, studied in his spare time, and qualified as a solicitor in 1931. During the war he served in the R.A.F. as a flight lieutenant in the Air Ministry Secret Branch. He was a member of Esher Urban Council from 1934 to 1946, is a liveryman of the Solicitors’ Company, and a freeman of the City of London.

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