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 : Croydon West

CANDIDATE : Thompson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. M. Thompson, aged 37, is a erector of two pub-“stung companies. He *as educated in India, «urma, and Ceylon, and alter leaving school worked in Calcutta. He enhsted in the Royal £avy as an ordinary seaman m 1940, and rose robelieutenant-comman-u<, o was serving in HM.s Hermione in wh;i en the shiP was attacked and sunk wwie on Malta convoy 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 : Derby North

CANDIDATE : Walters

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. I. Walters comes from a family which has been closely associated with the growth of the Labour movement in the Ilkeston district. Aged 28, he is a school master and a B.A. of Nottingham University. He has lectured on political theory and is writing a history of Derbyshire.

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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 : Ealing North

CANDIDATE : Olsen

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. S. Olsen, wife of the medical superintendent of a hospital for nervous and mental disorders, graduated at the University of Wales and was formerly a senior English mistress. She is a member of Conservative Party area organizations.

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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 : Edmonton

CANDIDATE : Albu

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Albu, born in Hampstead in 1903, was for 15 years works manager at a Greenford factory. Educated at Ton-bridge School and the City and Guilds (Engineering) College, his first employment was in workshops and shipyards in the Midlands and North. He is a member of the A.E.U. and is on the Fabian Society executive. In 1946, in Germany, he was responsible for co ordinating political and administrative policy and the development of the new German constitution. He was elected M.P. at a by-election in 1948.

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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 : Finchley

CANDIDATE : Pickles

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. D. Pickles, a lecturer and writer, was born at Bridlington, Yorks, and is the wife of the senior lecturer in political science at the London School of Economics. She lectures in political science at Morley College for working men and women. She has acted as interpreter at international Socialist conferences since the war.

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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 : Grimsby

CANDIDATE : Hall

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Hall, born in 1911, was called up as a territorial in the Royal Artillery in the war, commissioned in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and graduated to the Sta Bf College. He was a member of the planning staff which prepared the invasion of Europe, and went oversea on the staff of Field-Marshal Montgomery. He has been a member of Grimsby Town Council and vice-president of the local British 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 : Hartlepools, The

CANDIDATE : Greenwell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. T. G. Greenwell, who was born in Sunderland in 1894, is managing director of a ship-repairing firm in the town. Educated at Gresham’s School, Holt, and Durham University, he served in both world wars. He has been a Deputy Lieutenant for Co. Durham since 1945. He represented the constituency from 1943 to 1945, and served on the executive committee of the Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation for many 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 : Heston and Isleworth

CANDIDATE : Harris

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. R. Harris, born in 1913 and called to the Bar in 1941, has been secretary of the National Tyre Distributors Association s-ince 1947. An officer of the National Fire Service from 1941 to 1945 he later became secretary of the National Association of Fire Officers. A member of the Council of the National Church League and secretary of the London meeting of Lay churchmen.

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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 : Huddersfield West

CANDIDATE : Bolt

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Bolt is president of the divisional Labour Party in Farnham, Surrey, where he lives. A fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, he is an adviser to the Parliamentary Labour Party on finance and taxation measures, and a public auditor. He is aged 48. He has been a member of the Labour Party for more than a quarter of a century and is also a member of the Co-operative movement.

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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 : Kingston upon Hull Central

CANDIDATE : Hardcastle

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. R. Hardcastle, who was born in 1903, is managing director of a Hull firm of motor and agricultural engineers. A member of Haltemprice Urban Council and of Hull Chamber of Commerce, he is also chairman of Haltemprice Divisional Liberal Association, and a member of the executive committee of the Yorkshire Area Liberal Federation.

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