1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kingston upon Thames Constituency – Biography of Boyd-Carpenter

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kingston upon Thames

CANDIDATE : Boyd-Carpenter

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Boyd-Carpenter, aged 41, entered Parliament in 1945. A grandson of Bishop Boyd-Carpenter of Ripon, and son of the late Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, M.P. for Chertsey, 1931-37, he was educated at Stowe School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1933, and practised until the outbreak of war. In 1940 he was commissioned in the Scots Guards, and later served with the Allied Military Government.

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