1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rhondda East Constituency – Biography of Mainwaring

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rhondda East

CANDIDATE : Mainwaring

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Mainwaring, who has held the seat since 1933, was born in 1885 at Swansea, and went to Rhondda in his early years to work in the mines. He studied at the Central Labour College, London, for two years, returned to the coal face, and went back to the college in 1919 as economics lecturer and vice-principal. In 1924 he became miners’ agent in Rhondda, which post he held until he became M.P.

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