1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke-on-Trent South Constituency – Biography of Orridge

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke-on-Trent South

CANDIDATE : Orridge

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Orridge, aged 41, started as an office boy with a glass firm and became a director in 1934. Later he was an executive with a tyre manufacturing company and left in 1941 to take an R.A.F. commission. He served in the Middle East and was invalided out in 1944, and is a publisher and bookseller. At one time a Liberal, he was adopted as prospective candidate for South Stoke in 1948, but joined the Conservative Party in 1949.

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