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 : Chichester

CANDIDATE : Gibson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. V. Gibson, a London journalist, is 40. A graduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he took an honours degree in political economy and was president of the Cambridge Union. During the war he served as a major in the Indian Army.

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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 : Stratford-on-Avon

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. G. M. Brown is aged 25. After a public school and university education he became a barrister and is a member of the Labour Lawyers’ Association. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the Navy in minesweepers. At Cambridge he was chairman of the University Labour Club, and in 1947-48 was on the executive of the National Association of Labour Students.

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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 : Devizes

CANDIDATE : Aston

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Aston, aged 43, worked for some time with the Great Western Railway, served as a gunner in the Royal Artillery, and was later commissioned and landed in Normandy soon after D Day. In 1946 he joined the Allied Control Commission in Germany and remained with them until October, 1949.

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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 : Beverley

CANDIDATE : Gray

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Gray, a farmer of Grantham, has three times previously contested the Rutland and Stamford division without success. He is aft advocate of monetary reform and has written on farming and economic problems.

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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 : Thirsk and Malton

CANDIDATE : Geffen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Geffen was born in 1920, and is solicitor to the Durham Miners’ Association, joining the Labour Party when he was 15, Mr. Geffen is a former political education officer of Hampstead Labour Party, a member of the Haldane and Fabian Societies, and organizing secretary of the latter’s Durham branch. He has been a member of the London University branch of the Labour Party since 1945, and is a member of the National Union of Mineworkers (Durham area). He served with the Royal Artillery, 1940-45, and was later engaged in full-time educational work with the Army Educational 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 : Hemsworth

CANDIDATE : Holmes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Horace Holmes was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power in the last Parliament. He started work at 13 as a miner and served for many years as an official in the miners’union. He was for 23 years a member of Royston R.D.C. and for 11 years sat on the West Riding County Council. He is 59, and won the D.C.M. in the war. He was first returned to Parliament unopposed at a by-election at Hemsworth in 1946. His majority this time was the largest in the election.

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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 : Skipton

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. J. Roberts was born in the Glamorganshire mining village of Nelson in 1915 and is the son of a miner. He obtained a B.A. degree with first-class honours in economics and political science at Cardiff University, and became a teacher. Before the war he was a master at Skipton Grammar School, and is a staff tutor at University College, Hull. He served in the Army during 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 : Cardiff West

CANDIDATE : Hallinan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. S. Hallinan is 54, and a solicitor. He fought Central Cardiff in 1945. A former member of Cardiff City Council, he was deputy lord mayor in 1944-45. He is chairman of West Cardiff Conservative Association, and of the Wales and Monmouth?hire Conservative Clubs Council. During the war he commanded the 21st Glamorgan (Cardiff) Battalion, Home Guard.

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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 : Swansea West

CANDIDATE : Morris

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Percy Morris, who won the seat from a Liberal National candidate in 1945, has been a railway clerk and was Deputy Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence from 1941 to 1945. He is a member of Swansea Borough Council, and since 1930 has been a member of the executive committee of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He was born in 1893, and is interested in transport and local government questions.

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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 : Cardiganshire

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Morgan who is a trained economist, graduated at the University College of Wales. While a student there he produced a history of the college. He is a member of the council and court of the University College of Wales and of the National Library of Wales, and lectures on economics and international affairs.

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