1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lowestoft Constituency – Biography of Evans

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lowestoft

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Edward Evans, who was born in Manchester in 1883, won the seat in 1945. A teacher, he was educated at Cheltenham and London University, and was head master of the East Anglian Schools for the Blind from 1928 to 1943, when he became deputy secretary of the National Institute for the Blind. He is the founder and chairman of the College of Teachers of the Blind and chairman of a Ministry of Health advisory committee on handicapped persons. His book, ” A Manual Alphabet for the Deaf Blind,” is a standard work. He has served on Yarmouth Town Council.

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