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

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 : Perkins

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. R. D. Perkins sat for the old Stroud division from 1931 until his defeat in 1945. He was first Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation during the war, and before that he served in the R.A.F. He was educated at Cambridge. He is chairman of Southern Newspapers, Limited. He founded the British Air Line Pilots’ Association and is chairman of the county Air Training Corps committee.

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