British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Truro Constituency – Biography of Wilson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Truro

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Wilson was born in 1903 and was educated at Clifton and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in history. A solicitor, he was senior assistant in the parliamentary and general section of the Great Western Railway, but resigned a few years ago because of his attitude towards nationalization. He was formerly connected with the West Islington Young Conservatives, and in 1945 formed a branch at Marlow.


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