1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middlesbrough East Constituency – Biography of Marquand

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Middlesbrough East

CANDIDATE : Marquand

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hilary Marquand, who was appointed Minister of Pensions in July, 1948, was born in Wales in 1901 and educated at Cardiff University, where he was a prizeman, winning honours in history and economics. After graduating he became lecturer in economics at Birmingham University. He spent a year in America studying industrial relations, and was visiting lecturer at Wisconsin University. He is an authority on industrial and social problems in South Wales, where his former seat, East Cardiff, has disappeared. He has held office as Secretary of Overseas Trade and Paymaster-General.

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