1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Gorton Constituency – Biography of Watts

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Gorton

CANDIDATE : Watts

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Watts, born in 1905, was educated at Shrewsbury and New College, Oxford, and is a partner in a large wholesale textile firm in Manchester. Elected to Manchester City Council in 1933, he resigned in 1938 to give his time to recruiting and training for the Territorial Army. He served throughout the war. Mr. Watts is treasurer of Manchester Conservative Association.

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