1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Thirsk and Malton Constituency – Biography of Turton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Thirsk and Malton

CANDIDATE : Turton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Turton was born in 1903, and is a barrister, and a farmer and landowner. He entered the House of Commons in May, 1929, as Member for Thirsk and Malton, a division which has been represented by a Turton for an unbroken spell of 36 years. He succeeded his uncle, the late Sir Edmund R. Turton, who was a member from 1914 to 1929. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1926. He served with The Green Howards in the last war, and was a lieutenant-colonel attached to G.H.Q., M.E.F.

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