1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norwich South Constituency – Biography of Strauss

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norwich South

CANDIDATE : Strauss

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Henry Strauss, K.C., was born in 1892 and educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1919 and took silk in 1946. He became Conservative M.P. for Norwich in 1935, but was defeated in 1945. During the war Mr. Strauss was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, until he resigned over disagreement with the Yalta Conference decisions. In 1946 he re-entered the House of Commons for the Combined English Universities. He is chairman of the S.C.A.P.A. Society and is on the executive of the National Trust.

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