1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester South East Constituency – Biography of Waterhouse

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester South East

CANDIDATE : Waterhouse

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. Charles Waterhouse represented the old South division of Leicester for 21 years, but was defeated at the 1945 election. He was an Assistant Whip in 1935-36 ; a Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1936; Comptroller of H.M. Household, 1937-38, and Treasurer in 1938-39; and became Assistant Postmaster-General from 1939 to 1941 ; and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1941 to 1945. He was educated at Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, and during the 1914-18 war served with the Life Guards.

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