1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rother Valley Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rother Valley

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Griffiths, 54, won Rother Valley in 1945. At 13 he was a mine worker, and then for 17 years was a trade union official for the Hickleton Main blanch of the Yorkshire Mine-workers’ Association. Elected to Dearne Urban Council in 1925, he was chairman three times before retiring in 1945. He was also a member of the former Don Valley Board of Guardians and of Swinton and District Isolation Hospital committee.

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