1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stafford and Stone Constituency – Biography of Swingler

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stafford and Stone

CANDIDATE : Swingler

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. T. Swingler was born on March 2, 1915, his mother being a niece of Archbishop Lord Davidson. He was educated at Stowe and New College, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. In 1936 he settled in North Staffordshire as a lecturer for the Workers’ Educational Association and the Oxford Tutorial Movements. He served with the Royal Armoured Corps in the last war, and in 1945 won Stafford from the Conservatives.

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