1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Taunton Constituency – Biography of Collins

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Taunton

CANDIDATE : Collins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Victor Collins won the seat in 1945. Born in 1903, and educated in London, he entered the family business of basket makers, and is chairman of the National Basket and Willow Trades Advisory Committee. He has been president of the employers’ federation of Cane and Willow Workers’ Associations since 1932, and president of the National Willow Growers’ Association since 1945.

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