1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham South Constituency – Biography of Rees-Davies

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham South

CANDIDATE : Rees-Davies

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, born in 1916, was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he was a prominent cricketer. He was called to the Bar in 1939, and is a practising barrister. Commissioned in the?Welsh Guards at the outbreak of the late war, he served later, on the staff of Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, with the Guards Armoured Division. He lost his right arm while on service.

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