1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southampton Test Constituency – Biography of Fry

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southampton Test

CANDIDATE : Fry

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Fry, son of C. B. Fry, the famous cricketer, went to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and was in the Navy until 1920, when he retired to assist his father in charge of the Mercury Nautical School, Hamble. From 1934 to 1949 he held a number of appointments with the B.B.C., including assistant programme director, Midland Region, and research director of the B.B.C.’s New York office. He is aged 49.

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