British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Brixton Constituency – Biography of Lipton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Brixton

CANDIDATE : Lipton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. M. Lipton, Who won Brixton for the Labour Party in 1945, was born in 1900 in ^underland and went to Oxford with a scholar-snip- He studied law and was called to the Bar in 1926. He became an alderman of Lambeth Borough Council. A Private in the Territorial Army before the war, ne rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. His recreation is ” giving aavice,” and he has conducted a free advice bureau m Brixton since 1933.


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