Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fulham East

CANDIDATE : Stewart

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Stewart became Under-Secretary for War in 1947. Born in 1906, he was educated at Christ’s Hospital and Oxford, where he became president of the Union and chairman of the University Labour Club. He was formerly a teacher and lecturer for the Workers’ Educational Association, and during the war was a captain in the Intelligence Corps.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith North

CANDIDATE : Pritt

PARTY : Lab. Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C., who represented the division from 1935 until the dissolution, was born in 1887 and educated at Winchester, London University and abroad. He took silk in 1927. Formerly a member of the national executive, he was expelled from the Labour Party in 1940 because of his opposition to official policy on Russia and Finland. In the last Parliament he became chairman of the ” Independent ” group of five Labour Members. He is also chairman of the Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R., and president of the Student Labour Federation.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington North

CANDIDATE : Page

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. G. Page, who is aged 39, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. His father, the late Lt.-Col. F. Page, The Hertfordshire Regiment, and his grandfather were mayors of Hertford. A solicitor, Mr. Page has taken a special interest in road safety, being chairman of the Pedestrians’ Association.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Norwood

CANDIDATE : Smyth

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. J. G. Smyth, V.C, author, journalist, broadcaster, playwright, and politician, is a Devonshire man. He was born in 1893 and was educated at Repton and the Royal Military College. Holder of many decorations, he has had several staff appointments. During the war he raised the 19th (” Dagger “) Division, which had a great part in the recapture of Mandalay and Rangoon. In 1945 he unsuccessfully opposed Mr. Ernest Bevin in Central Wands-worth.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham West

CANDIDATE : Pritchard

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Pritchard was born in 1913 and had an elementary education. He early associated himself with the Liberal Party, at 20 was secretary and treasurer of S.W. Bethnal Green Young Liberals. He joined the Army as a private in 1940 and left with the rank of captain. He is a director of a firm of printers and stationers at Peckham. A former chairman of the local British Legion, he is a representative on the Labour Resettlement Committee of the Legion.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Pancras North

CANDIDATE : Robinson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K.. Robinson was first elected to Parliament in a by-election at North St. Pancras in 1949. He was born in 1911, the son of a doctor, and received his education at Oundle School. An insurance broker until the war, he joined the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman in 1941, was commissioned in 1942, and promoted lieutenant-commander in 1944, servin& H.M.S. King George V. After the war he became a company secretary and served on “t. Pancras Borough Council.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke Newington and Hackney North

CANDIDATE : Weitzman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Weitzman, who was born in 1898 and educated at Hutche-son Grammar School, Glasgow, and at Glasgow and Manchester Universities, unsuccessfully contesting Stoke Newington in 1931 and again in 1935. He was elected in 1945. He is a barrister, and has a son and daughter who are both reading for the Bar. He served in the first world war in the 3rd Battn. The Manchester Regiment.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Streatham

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Wilson, a senior master at Streatham Modern School, is a bachelor. Born in 1901, he was educated at the City of London School and Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine. He worked in a leather cloth factory for two years before becoming a teacher. He was secretary of Streatham Liberal Association for three years.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Altrincham and Sale

CANDIDATE : Erroll

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. J. Erroll, who is 35 and a bachelor, was educated at Oundle and Cambridge and is a director of five engineering companies. Since entering Parliament in 1945 he has been a „ member of delegations to Germany, Burma and West Africa, and has been secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Trade and Industry Committee and deputy chairman of the Parliamentary and scientific Committee. In the war he was a colonel attached to S.E.A.C.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bath

CANDIDATE : Cardew

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. H. B. O. Cardew, born in 1904, spent many years of his early life in France, where his father was an English chaplain, and was in business in America, France and this country for 10 years befor? taking up medicine. He is the general secretary of the Medical Practitioners’ Union.

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