1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kingston upon Hull East Constituency – Biography of Pursey

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 East

CANDIDATE : Pursey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. H. Pursey served nearly 30 years in the Royal Navy and was the first naval officer promoted from the lower deck to become an M.P. Born in 1891, he joined the Navy as a seaman boy in 1907. In the 1914-18 war he served with the Dover Patrol and the Grand Fleet and was at the Battle of Jutland. Commissioned in 1917, he was in the Black Sea operations 1919-20 and also served in Somaliland and Mesopotamia. He was retired in 1936. A lecturer and journalist, he was first elected for East Hull in 1945.

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