1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Blackley Constituency – Biography of Diamond

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Blackley

CANDIDATE : Diamond

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Diamond is 42, and a London accountant. Born in Leeds and educated at Leeds Grammar School, he won Blackley from the Conservatives in 1945. Formerly Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Works, he was appointed to the Speaker’s panel of chairmen, and presided over the Standing Committees which dealt with the Gas Bill and Licensing Bill. He went to Burma with the Parliamentary delegation recently.

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