1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester North East Constituency – Biography of Taylor

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester North East

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. A. Taylor, a London journalist, was born in 1892 and educated at Manchester. In 1923 he became chairman of Newspaper Features, Limited. He was president of the Institute of Journalists in 1938. He served with the Royal Fusiliers in the 1914-18 war and became staff captain. In 1945 he unsuccessfully contested Doncaster.

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