1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newport Constituency – Biography of Owen

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newport

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Owen, a Cardiff barrister, was born in 1922 and educated at Swansea Technical College and University College Law School. While there during the war, he volunteered for air crew duty and served in the R.A.F. for five years, becoming a flight lieutenant. On his release in 1946 he resumed legal studies at Lincoln’s Inn and is in practice in Cardiff.

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