1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Webbe

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Webbe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir H. Webbe, born in 1885, represented the Abbey Division of Westminster from 1939. After leaving Cambridge he became a master at Oundle and St. Paul’s Schools, and later a school inspector, in the 1914-18 war he held appointments in the Ministry of Munitions. Afterwards he took up a commercial career and is a director of several companies. He was elected to the L.C.C. in 1925, and has served as chairman of the education and general purposes committees. From 1934 to 1945 was leader of the Municipal Reform Party on the council.

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