1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington North Constituency – Biography of Burns

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington North

CANDIDATE : Burns

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Burns, a railway booking clerk, was previously in the Civil Service and secretary of a local branch of the Post Office Union. Born in 1921, he was educated at a technical school and won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, which he left to go into the Army.

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