British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland South Constituency – Biography of Kitchell

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sunderland South

CANDIDATE : Kitchell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. Kitchell, an optician in Newcastle, was born in 1920 and has lived on Tyneside all his life. During the war he spent six years in the Royal Navy, three of them as a rating, served with a destroyer flotilla based on West Africa, and took part in the invasion of Sicily with the naval commandos. He read theology at Cambridge after the war and graduated.


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