CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bexley
CANDIDATE : Hart
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss M. E. Hart, a City bank clerk, was born in 1916. She claims direct descent from Sir Humphrey Davy and has travelled extensively.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Hall Green
CANDIDATE : Jones
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Aubrey Jones, with few early material advantages, gained scholarships which took him to the London School of Economics, where, at the age of 22, he was at the top of the first-class honours list Taking up journalism as a career he was a foreign correspondent until his work was interrupted by war service. In 1948 he became political officer to Sir Andrew Duncan at the British Iron and Steel Federation.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Perry Barr
CANDIDATE : Boyle
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir Edward Boyle, who is 26 years of age, was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and was President of the Oxford Union. He comes of a family with a notable record in public and political work. His father, an authority on foreign affairs, was British High Commissioner for Serbia from 1914 to 1918.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn East
CANDIDATE : Leavey
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. A. Leavey, 35, is a director of a weaving and spinning concern in Colne, and managing director of another business at j^elson. During the war he served with the tnmskilling Dragoons in France and Belgium oetore the retreat and returned to France with l«em soon after D Day. He held the rank of major on demobilization. He is chairman of uie Gisburn branch of the Skipton Conservative Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolton West
CANDIDATE : Tillotson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. L. Tillotson, aged 30, is the youngest son of Mr. F. L. Tillotson, chairman of Tillotsons Newspapers, Limited, Bolton. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. Joining the Army in 1939 he served in France and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. Later commissioned in the R.A.S.C., he served mostly with armoured aivjsions and was eventually on headquarters staff of 30th Corps. On demobilization he Joined the family firm.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford East
CANDIDATE : Green
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Green, a miner, born in Bradford in 1907, was at one time a member of the Yorkshire divisional council of the Labour Party. He was active in hunger marches of the unemployed in the ’30s, and in the great Yorkshire woollen strike. Later, he joined the Communists and is their Yorkshire district organizer.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighton Pavilion
CANDIDATE : Teeling
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. Teeling, aged 47, has been one of Brighton’s two representatives in Parliament since 1944, when he won a by-election. He has interested himself in foreign affairs, and has travelled extensively in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan. He studied unemployment in America, Canada, and Europe, and in 1933 he led a deputation of British unemployed to Rome, where they were received by the Pope. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol South East
CANDIDATE : Simms
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. E. Simms, aged 35, was early in life a prominent figure in the Young Conservative movement in London, where he worked in Fleet Street. In the last war he served in India and Burma, attaining the rank of captain. He is a keen Church worker.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cambridge
CANDIDATE : Kerr
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Hamilton Kerr was member for Oldham in the 1931-45 Parliaments, and served as Under-Secretary for Air, 1942-45, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the “caretaker” Government. Born in 1903 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he worked as a journalist in Fleet Street for three years before entering Parliament. He delegate to The Hague Conference in 1949.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Coventry East
CANDIDATE : Alexander
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. Alexander, born in 1910, is an organizer for the Communist Party and a member of the national executive council. He fought for two years with the International Brigade in Spain, commanding a British battalion for nearly a year. In the last war he served for five years in the Royal Armoured Corps in North Africa, Italy and Germany, holding the rank of captain.
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