1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lincoln Constituency – Biography of de Freitas

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lincoln

CANDIDATE : de Freitas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas, who succeeded Mr. Strachey as Undersecretary for Air, is 37 and was M.P. for Central Nottingham in the last Parliament. He was educated at Haileybury and Clare College, Cambridge, and spent two years as Mellon Fellow at Yale University. He became president of the Cambridge Union. He is a barrister on the Midland Circuit and was one of the British delegation to the United Nations Assembly. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1939. He served in the R.A.F. from 1940 until 1945.

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