1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shrewsbury Constituency – Biography of Langford-Holt

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shrewsbury

CANDIDATE : Langford-Holt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Langford-Holt, one of the youngest members in the last Parliament, aged 34, is a local man and went to Shrewsbury School, and is a grandson of a former mayor. He was secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Labour Committee and joint secretary of the House of Commons branch of the British Legion. Has travelled Middle Europe, India, and Africa to obtain first-hand knowledge of local problems. During the war he served in the Fleet Air Arm.

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