1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northamptonshire South Constituency – Biography of Manningham-Buller

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Manningham-Buller

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Manningham-Buller, K.C., was M.P. for Daventry from 1943 to 1950. Son of a former member for Kettering and Northampton, he was born in 1905 jg and went to Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1927, practised on the Midland Circuit, and became a K.C. in 1948. He served in the Judge Advocate-General’s department during the war, and in the ” caretaker ” Government was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works. He went on the good-will mission to U.S.S.R. and was on the Anglo-American Palestine Committee.

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