British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orpington Constituency – Biography of Abrahams

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Orpington

CANDIDATE : Abrahams

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Abrahams, as wife of Sir Sidney Abrahams, a legal adviser to the Colonial Office and formerly Chief Justice in Uganda, Tanganyika, and Ceylon, has studied racial, welfare, and emigration problems in two continents. During the war she was on the Ministry of Food panel of lecturers, and in 1947 engaged in W.V.S. old folk’s welfare schemes.


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