1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland North Constituency – Biography of Willey

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sunderland North

CANDIDATE : Willey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. T. Wil?ey, elected for Sunderland in 1945, was born in 1910, educated at Cambridge, called to the Bar in 1936, and was for a time a barrister on the Northern Circuit. During the war he served with the A.F.S. in East London, and was London regional officer of the Fire Brigades Union. He became Parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary in 1946. He is a director of the North East Trading Estates, Limited.

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