Claim: After Lionel Beaumont Thomas decided to retire on health grounds in 1933, Cartland was chosen to replace him in Herbert Austin's former constituency of King's Norton, Birmingham; then he won in the 1935 election, and became one of the youngest MPs in the Commons.
Evidence: After Lionel Beaumont Thomas decided to retire on health grounds in 1933, Cartland was chosen to replace him in Herbert Austin's former constituency of King's Norton, Birmingham. He won in the 1935 election and became one of the youngest MPs in the Commons.