1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds North West Constituency – Biography of Kaberry

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds North West

CANDIDATE : Kaberry

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Kaberry, born in Leeds in 1907, is a solicitor with many public interests. First elected to Leeds City Council in 1930, he resigned at the outbreak of war to enlist in the Royal Artillery and commanded a battery at Dunkirk. He was mentioned in dispatches. In Germany after the war, as a lieutenant-colonel, he was senior legal officer and president of the military governing board at Hamburg. On demobilization he was re-elected to Leeds City Council and is still a member.

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