1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Mansfield Constituency – Biography of Taylor

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Mansfield

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. B. Taylor, a miners’ official, was elected at a by-election in 1941 and returned in 1945. He is 55. In January, 1947, he unveiled the nationalization plaque at Sherwood Colliery, where he had started work at the age of 14 and eventually became a checkweighman. He has been vice-president of the Notts Miners’ Federation. From 1945 to the dissolution he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of National Insurance.

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