1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ruislip Northwood Constituency – Biography of Crowder

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ruislip Northwood

CANDIDATE : Crowder

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Crowder, who was born in 1919, is a son of Capt. J. F. E. Crowder, M.P. for Finchley since 1935. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and is a barrister of the Inner Temple. Joining the Coldstream Guards in 1939, he served in North Africa, Italy (where he was personal liaison officer to Gen. Leese), and Burma, attaining the rank of major. In 1945 at the North Tottenham by-election he reduced the Labour majority by nearly 10,000.

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