1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penrith and The Border Constituency – Biography of Roberts

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Penrith and The Border

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Wilfred Roberts was born in 1900, and is a son of Alderman Charles Roberts, chairman of the Cumberland County Council, and the late Lady Cecilia Roberts, a daughter of the ninth Earl of Carlisle, and was educated at Gresham School and Balliol College, Oxford. Since 1935 he had been Liberal M.P. for the former North Cumberland division. In the second world war he was commissioned in The Border Regiment, later becoming Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air, and since 1947 has been chairman of the Liberal Party Press and Publicity Committee.

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