British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcester Constituency – Biography of Ward

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Worcester

CANDIDATE : Ward

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Ward, who represented Worcester in the last Parliament, retaining the seat in 1945 with a majority of four votes, is aged 42, and brother of the Earl of Dudley. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and joined the Royal Air Force when he was 21, serving for 15 years. During the first three years of the war he was actively engaged in operational flights as a pilot, and then as a lecturer at an R.A.F. staff college.


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