1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walsall Constituency – Biography of Barlow

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walsall

CANDIDATE : Barlow

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir John Barlow, of Sandbach, Cheshire, is senior partner in a Manchester textile company, a local director of a bank and also of Malayan rubber companies. He is deputy chairman of the Cotton Board. He is 51, and the son of the first baronet, who was M.P. for Frome for 25 years. Contesting Northwich as an Independent Liberal in 1929, he stood down in favour of the Conservative in 1931, and was elected for Eddisbury as a Liberal National in 1945.

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