1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Widnes Constituency – Biography of Pilkington

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Widnes

CANDIDATE : Pilkington

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. R. A. Pilkington was born in 1908 and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford He took up farming in Canada in 1928, but returned to this country in 1930 to join the Coldstream Guards. He resigned his commission on his election as M.P. for Widnes in 1935, which seat he held until 1945. Rejoining the Army in 1939, he went to France almost immediately, and was among the last to leave Dunkirk. He remained in the Army until 1942, when he became Civil Lord of the Admiralty.

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