British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Montgomeryshire Constituency – Biography of Davies

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Montgomeryshire

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Clement Davies, K.C., Leader of the Liberal Party in ihe House of Commons, nas represented the division uninterruptedly since 1929. Born in 1884, mingling his early school lessons with work on his father’s farm, he later went to Cambridge and took first-class honours in both parts of the Law Tripos, and also gained distinctions when studying for the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1909. He took silk in 1926, and has a leading place in commercial practice.


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