1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Helens Constituency – Biography of Shawcross

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Helens

CANDIDATE : Shawcross

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Hartley Shawcross, K.C., entering Parliament for the first time in 1945, went direct to the Treasury bench as Attorney-General. He was born in Germany in 1902, of British parents, but was brought to England as a baby and educated at Dulwich College and Geneva. As a junior barrister he was in chambers in Liverpool with Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe, a former Attorney-General. He was chairman of the Aliens Tribunal in 1939 and of the Catering Wages Commission and for three years during the war Commissioner for the North-Western Region. At each meeting of the Assembly of the United Nations he has been one of the principal delegates from the United Kingdom, and at the Nuremberg trials of the major war criminals he was chief British prosecutor. A former recorder of Salford, he is now recorder of Kingston on Thames.

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