1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oxford Constituency – Biography of Hogg

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oxford

CANDIDATE : Hogg

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Quintin Hogg, born in 1907, the eldest son of Viscount Hail-sham, entered Parliament in 1938. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, was President of the Union in 1929, and later was called to the Bar. He was commissioned in The Rifle Brigade in 1939 and served in the Middle East and was wounded in the Western Desert in 1941. In the last weeks of the Coalition Government he was appointed joint Under-Secretary for Air, a post which he also held in the ” caretaker ” Government. He is the author of several works on legal and political affairs.

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