British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salford West Constituency – Biography of Royle

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Salford West

CANDIDATE : Royle

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Royle, who was born in 1899, was educated at Stockport Grammar School. He was a master butcher for many years, and is an ex-president of the Manchester and Salford Butchers’ Association and executive member of other meat trade organizations, but he resigned from the National “”*? *?* Federation after there was criticism of the nationalization threat. He was on the Stockport Borough Council from 1928 to 1935, and has been chairman of the Stockport Trades and Labour Council. He was first elected to Parliament in 1945.


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