1950 GENERAL ELECTION : New Forest Constituency – Biography of Crosthwaite-Eyre

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : New Forest

CANDIDATE : Crosthwaite-Eyre

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. O. E. Crosthwaite-Eyre, chairman of printing and publishing companies, rose from the ranks to become a colonel in the Royal Marines during the war, and served on the staff for the invasion of Europe. Born in 1913, he was educated at Downside and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a verderer of the New Forest. One of his ancestors sat in Parliament in Elizabeth’s reign.

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