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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Billericay Constituency – Biography of Braine

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Billericay Constituency – Biography of Braine

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Billericay

    CANDIDATE : Braine

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. Braine, born in 1914, is a former vice-chairman of the Junior Imperial League and from 1938 to 1945 was on the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. He enlisted as a private in 1940; was commissioned in the North Staffordshire Regiment ; graduated from the Staff College, Camberley, and was appointed to the staff of Lord Mountbatten. He is a lecturer and broadcaster.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Maldon Constituency – Biography of Abernethy

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Maldon Constituency – Biography of Abernethy

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Maldon

    CANDIDATE : Abernethy

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. D. Abernethy was a school master before the war, and has since toured the country lecturing on visual aids to education. During the war he served in Ceylon and India, holding staff appointments. He is a native of Essex and 36 years of age.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stroud and Thornbury Constituency – Biography of Parkin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stroud and Thornbury Constituency – Biography of Parkin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stroud and Thornbury

    CANDIDATE : Parkin

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. T. Parkin was returned to Parliament in 1945 as the first Labour M.P. for the Stroud division He went to Lincoln College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at Strasbourg, and up to 1945 was a teacher at Wycliffe College. During the war he served in the R.A.F. and left with the rank of flight-lieutenant. He is chairman of the trade and industry group of the Labour Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Winchester Constituency – Biography of Smithers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Winchester Constituency – Biography of Smithers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Winchester

    CANDIDATE : Smithers

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. H. B. Smithers, a barrister of 37, educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained first – class honours, is a lieutenant-commander in the London Division, R.N.V.R. During the war he was assistant Naval Attache at the British Embassy in Washington ; an acting Naval Attache in Mexico. He has been a member of the Winchester R.D.C.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hitchin Constituency – Biography of Fisher

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hitchin Constituency – Biography of Fisher

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hitchin

    CANDIDATE : Fisher

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. T. L. Fisher, born in 1913, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, is a partner in a London firm of surveyors. He went with the Guards Division to north-western Europe as a major, and in 1945 was given the immediate award of M.C. in the field. He is married to Lady Gloria Vaughan, eldest daughter of the 7th Earl of Lisburne.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of Newman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of Newman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Canterbury

    CANDIDATE : Newman

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Newman is senior partner in a firm of accountants and a company director. He was formerly a history master and a lecturer in economics, and is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. He is well known in London club cricket and has played for Surrey Club and Ground. He was born in 1907.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Lowe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Lowe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gravesend

    CANDIDATE : Lowe

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. G. Lowe, 28, took a double first in modern and medieval languages at Cambridge, served in The Sherwood Foresters from 1941 to 1945, and was demobilized with the rank of captain. Formerly employed in the Conservative research department, he has toured Europe and assisted at the Council of Europe.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tonbridge Constituency – Biography of Willard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tonbridge Constituency – Biography of Willard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tonbridge

    CANDIDATE : Willard

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. A. Willard, a chartered electrical engineer, born in 1905, owned and flew his own aircraft before the war. In the war he was commissioned in the R.A.F.V.R. and was attached to the Air Training Corps. He is a member of the Liberal Home Counties Executive.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heywood and Royton Constituency – Biography of Watkinson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heywood and Royton Constituency – Biography of Watkinson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Heywood and Royton

    CANDIDATE : Watkinson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. H. Watkinson, who contested Royton at the last election, was born in 1906, and has held many positions in the Manchester Liberal Federation. Prominent in the administrative side of the building trade, he was in charge of the Works and Buildings emergency organizations for the country during the war, and was responsible for much repair work in London after the rocket bomb damage.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newton Constituency – Biography of Lee

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newton Constituency – Biography of Lee

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newton

    CANDIDATE : Lee

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Lee, who has served as Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps, was M.P. for the former Hulme division of Manchester, and was selected for Newton to succeed Sir Robert Young, who retired at the dissolution. Born in 1908, and receiving an elementary education, Mr. Lee led the 23,000 employees of a Manchester engineering company as chairman of the works committee.

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