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 : Thurrock

CANDIDATE : Neave

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. M. S. Neave, aged 33, a member of an old Essex family and educated at Eton and Oxford, is a barrister and was assistant secretary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. In 1940 he was wounded and captured at Calais, but escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. Later he served with a special intelligence unit, and accompanied a military mission to Holland in 1945.

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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 : Aldershot

CANDIDATE : Lyttelton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, who has sat for Aldershot since 1940, was a member of Mr. Churchill’s War Cabinet, being successively President of the Board of Trade, Minister of State in the Middle East, and Minister of Production. He was managing director of British Metal Corporation Limited before entering the Government, and is now chairman of Associated Electrical Industries. Born in 1893, he is the only son of the late Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and served in the Grenadier Guards in 1914-18.

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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 : Leominster

CANDIDATE : Baldwin

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Baldwin, farmer and stockbreeder, was born in a log cabin in Tennessee, his parents having emigrated at the end of the last ?entury. When his father returned to this country he sent his son to Lucton School. He served in the R.H.A. and won the M.C. in the 1914-18 war. Born in 1894, he is also a member of a firm of auctioneers.

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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 Albans

CANDIDATE : Dumpleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. W. Dumpleton, born at Luton, 1897, was mayor of St. Albans, 1943 and 1944, and was manager of a printing and publishing business before being elected in 1945. He is chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party housing and town planning group, member of the local government advisory panel to the Colonial Office and of the Colonial Economic and Development Council, and honorary secretary of the Parliamentary Socialist Christian group.

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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 : Chislehurst

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Hughes, aged 29, is a student of economics and a journalist. He served in ths Far East with The Seaforth Highlanders and on demobilization took a business appointment in India, but returned to England as a volunteer for coal-mining work.

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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 : Isle of Thanet

CANDIDATE : Wrong

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. Wrong is aged 32 and a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, stationed at Chatham as education officer. He previously served in the R.A.F. and in the Colonial Office.

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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 : Chorley

CANDIDATE : Adams

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss F. Adams, a personnel manager in a Nottingham firm, was during the war female labour officer at Chorley royal ordnance factory. In 1948 she was made Ministry of Supply regional labour manager for the northwest. Aged 45, and educated at St. Edmund’s College and the University of Liverpool, she was for some years a voluntary social worker in the slums of Liverpool.

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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 : Huyton

CANDIDATE : McGree

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. McGree, a joiner, is president of the north-west region of the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives and of the Mersey District Confederation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trade Unions. He is a member of the Communist Party national executive.

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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 : North Fylde

CANDIDATE : Robinson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Robinson, born in 1898, has many interests in the fishing industry. He was president of Fleetwood Fish Merchants’ Association for record period, 1940-47, and for two years chairman of the Federation of British Port Wholesale Fish Merchants’ Associations. He is also chairman of companies of trawler managers and wholesale fish merchants. He was educated at the Grammar School, Grimsby, and has served on Grimsby Town Council since 1945.

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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 : Harborough

CANDIDATE : Symington

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. H. Symington, farmer and company director, aged 46, was educated at Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge. He has been a member of Market Harborough U.D.C. since 1946. Twelve years ago he crossed the Sahara Desert on a motor-cycle. In December, 1949, he published a seven-point policy, which included the abolition of P.A.Y.E.

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