British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallsend Constituency – Biography of Appleby

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wallsend

CANDIDATE : Appleby

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. M. Appleby is the head of a century-old firm of solicitors in Newcastle-on-Tyne. A son of Sir Alfred Appleby, he was born in 1904 and educated at Rugby and Oxford. He has been deputy coroner for Newcastle since 1935, and was for four years under-sheriff. He is chairman of the political council of the Northern Conservative Club, and was a squadron leader in the R.A.F. during the war.


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