British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Burrows

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newbury

CANDIDATE : Burrows

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Burrows is 28, is a Lancastrian and school teacher. As a boy, he travelled in France with his father for two years, and, early in 1939, though only 17, he joined The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and saw five years’ service in the war. He lives at Chalfont St. Giles, where he is vice-chairman of the parish council, and takes a prominent part in the village workers’ educational movement.


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