British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penistone Constituency – Biography of Smith

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Penistone

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. F. Smith was born in 1920 and educated at Giggleswick School and in Sweden, where he studied the manufacture of steel, and is a steel wire manufacturer. During the war he served abroad in the Army and attained the rank of captain. He is a member of the National Insurance Appeal Tribunal and the Yorkshire executive of the Liberal Party.


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