1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tynemouth Constituency – Biography of Colman

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tynemouth

CANDIDATE : Colman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss G. Colman, member for the division in the last Parliament, was born in 1892, the daughter of a canon of the Church of England and was brought up in a Conservative environment, but while at Newnham College, Cambridge, she adopted Socialism. Later she became a tutor in Ruskin College and a staff tutor in London University. During the war she worked as a temporary Civil servant with the Ministry of Labour and the Board of Trade.

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