British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kingston upon Hull Central Constituency – Biography of Wilberforce

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kingston upon Hull Central

CANDIDATE : Wilberforce

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. O. Wilberforce, son of an Indian High Court judge, was born in 1907, educated at Winchester and Oxford and called to the Bar in 1932. During “the war he served as an artillery officer in Norway and later became head of the legal division of the Control Commission in Germany. He is a descendant of William Wilberforce.


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