1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Streatham Constituency – Biography of Benenson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Streatham

CANDIDATE : Benenson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Benenson, born in 1921, was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and is a barrister on the South-Eastern Circuit. During the war he served in the Intelligence Corps. He has founded a number of ” poor persons’ lawyer ” centres, and runs one in Bethnal Green, where he lives and is an alderman on the borough council.

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