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Roland Perry · April 13th 15, 11:16 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 05:03:27
on Mon, 13 Apr 2015, remarked:
My source was a friend, now dead, who was a contemporary at Sidney
Sussex College, Cambridge with David Owen who lived across the
corridor. He said Owen was the exception who had not already done
National Service.

If American, that's the sort of scandal that sees your political
career go down the toilet

Someone mentioned study medicine being an exemption, which is what
David Owen was doing.

And he was 21 on 2nd July 1959, about a fortnight after the end of
his last term, so would never have been able to vote in Cambridge
(even if being student had passed the residence test).

Indeed but my friend, the late Chris Bradford who would have been 21 in
November 1955, would have been able to vote.

But November is after October, and you said that the roll was drawn up
from people already 21 in October. Or is this an election in 1957 (for
which he may have qualified in October 1956).
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Roland Perry