British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lichfield and Tamworth Constituency – Biography of Snow

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lichfield and Tamworth

CANDIDATE : Snow

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Snow, aged 40, who represented Central Portsmouth in the last Parliament, was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasu?y, 1946-49, and previously Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. He was educated at Haileybury and the University of Sor-bonne, Paris, and was for nine years with a rubber company in England, East Africa, and India. He is a member ofthe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, and of the Fabian Society. He served in the Royal Artillery in the last war. He is a gieat-grandson of William Hazlitt, the essayist.


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