1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stroud and Thornbury Constituency – Biography of Parkin

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stroud and Thornbury

CANDIDATE : Parkin

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. T. Parkin was returned to Parliament in 1945 as the first Labour M.P. for the Stroud division He went to Lincoln College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at Strasbourg, and up to 1945 was a teacher at Wycliffe College. During the war he served in the R.A.F. and left with the rank of flight-lieutenant. He is chairman of the trade and industry group of the Labour Party.

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