British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Thanet Constituency – Biography of Boyd

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Thanet

CANDIDATE : Boyd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. C. Boyd, born in Canada in 1916, son of a former vicar of Minster, was educated at Marlborough, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. In 1941 he became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at India G.H.Q., and in 1944 Under-Secretary to the Government of India. He was secretary to the Parliamentary delegation to India in 1946, afterwards principal of the central economic planning staff in the Cabinet office, and more recently attached to the Treasury.


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