1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middleton and Prestwich Constituency – Biography of Gates

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Middleton and Prestwich

CANDIDATE : Gates

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. E. Gates was first returned for this division at a by-election in 1940, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning from 1943 to 1945. He is a founder member of the Tory Reform committee and was honorary secretary of the Conservative Party committee on town and country planning in the last Parliament. Born in 1903 and educated at Repton and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he has closely studied political, economic, and social conditions in many countries.

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