1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Withington Constituency – Biography of Cundiff

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Withington

CANDIDATE : Cundiff

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Cundiff, son of a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, was M.P. for Rusholme from the by-election in 1944 until 1945, when he lost the seat by 10 votes. Born in 1895, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery from Manchester University O.T.C. Seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 he was shot down three times. In the last war he served on antisubmarine patrol and was torpedoed off Dunkirk. He has business interests in chemicals, brewing, and engineering.

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