1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockport South Constituency – Biography of Ponsonby

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stockport South

CANDIDATE : Ponsonby

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Ponsonby was born and educated in Stockport, and started in business as a leather merchant in 1913. For many years a member of Stockport Town Council, he became an alderman in 1945, antl was mayor in 1948. A director of Stockport County F.C., he has also been chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire Leather and Grindery Merchants’ Association.

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