Born in Islington, London, at the 1935 general election he was an unsuccessful candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, coming a distant second with 36.7% of the votes.
He appears in a film held by the Cinema Museum in London opening council housing in Sutton in Ashfield in 1952.
He returned to his former occupation as a railway clerk, working in the Eastern Region Chief Civil Engineer's Office at King's Cross station.
[2] He was made a life peer on 9 February 1961 as Baron Lindgren, of Welwyn Garden City in the County of Hertford.
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