British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Hylton-Foster

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : York

CANDIDATE : Hylton-Foster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. B. Hylton-Foster, K.C.,aged 44, is the son-in-law of the Speaker. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is Recorder of Hudders-field and Chancellor of the Dioceses of Ripon and Durham. He was legal secretary to Lord Finlay at the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1928, and deputy judge advocate in North Africa and Italy during the war.


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