1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Petersfield Constituency – Biography of Dickson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Petersfield

CANDIDATE : Dickson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. H. H. L. Dickson is a sailor turned farmer. First going to sea from Osborne and Dartmouth in 1920, he qualified in, naval gunnery and retired in 1946 as gunnery commander, H.M.S. Excellent. Between the wars he took up farming, but was recalled to the Navy at the outbreak of war. He is now farming at Fareham, and is honorary secretary of Hants Liberal Organization.

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