1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Chair

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington South

CANDIDATE : Chair

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Somerset de Chair, author, aged 39, was educated at King’s School, New South Wales, where his father was Governor, and at Balliol College, Oxford. From 1935 to 1945 he was M.P. for S.W. Norfolk and served as Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Production. He also acted as chairman of the Conservative committee on the future constitution of Burma, and as vice-chairman of the Imperial Affairs Committee in the House. He is on the executive of the United Nations Association and is chairman of its National Appeal Committee.

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