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 : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Lonsdale

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Major R. T. H. Lonsdale is an Irishman, born in 1913 and educated at Eastbourne College and Sandhurst. In 1938-39 he was engaged on Waziristan operations in India and gained the M.C. for rescuing four wounded comrades. In the last war he was in the Parachute Brigade. He won the D.S.O. in Sicily, and he won a bar to the medal at Arnhem, where he led the ” Lonsdale Force,” and was twice wounded. He was heavyweight champion of The Royal Leicester Regiment.

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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 : Southwark

CANDIDATE : Isaacs

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. Isaacs, first entered Parliament in 1923, as member for Gravesend, represented North Southwark from 1929 to 1931, and was returned as its member at a by-election in 1939. He was Minister of Labour and National Service throughout the late Parliament. Born 66 years ago in Finsbury, of working-class parents, he went into the printing trade. Early interested in trade unionism he became general secretary of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants at the age of 25. He has since been president of the Printing and Kindred Trades’ Federation, mayor of Southwark, and chairman of the Trades Union Congress.

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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 : Wandsworth Clapham

CANDIDATE : Draper

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. G. M. Draper, born in 1919, joined the Labour Party League of Youth at 15, and the Young Communist League at 16. She is now a full-time political worker at Communist headquarters.

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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 : Accrington

CANDIDATE : Blakeman

PARTY : L

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Blakeman is 34. He was trained as a teacher before taking up a business career. He is now a partner in a firm of leather, asbestos, and woollen manufacturers at Par-tington. Formerly secretary of the old Buck-low Division Liberal Association, he is a member of the N.W. Area Liberal Discussion Group organizing committee. As an active member of the Society of Friends he served during the blitz with the Friends’ Rescue Service.

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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 : Barnsley

CANDIDATE : Walker

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. H. Walker is a Barnsley solicitor and a member of a well-known Barnsley family. Born in 1908, he was educated at Cambridge, where he obtained his Law Tripos. Commissioned in The Green Howards he was seriously wounded at El Alamein in 1942, and later was awarded the Military Cross. He is a local preacher of the Methodist Church.

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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 : Bexley

CANDIDATE : Heath

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. R. C. Heath resigned his post as Civil servant in the Ministry of Civil Aviation when he became prospective candidate and joined a firm of merchant bankers. At Oxford, where he was a scholar of Balliol, he was president of the Union and chairman of the University Conservative Association. He served in the Army, 1940-46, and took part in the European campaign, commanding an R.A. unit. He now commands a T.A. Artillery unit. He is 34.

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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 : Birmingham Edgbaston

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Peter Bennett, the head of one of the largest Birmingham manufacturing concerns, succeeded Mr. Neville Chamberlain as M.P. for the division in 1940. He is 70. He represented the British motor industry at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in 1932; and in 1938 became a member of the panel of industrial advisers to the Prime Minister. During the war he was, first, Director-General of Tanks and Transport, Ministry of Supply, and, later, Director of the Emergency Services Organization, Ministry of Aircraft Production, and Chairman of the Automatic Gun Board.

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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 : Birmingham Northfield

CANDIDATE : Etheridge

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Etheridge, a Halesowen man, was born 38 years ago. Since his appreticeship to engineering he has been an energetic Labour leader. Secretary of the local Labour Party and the Halesowen Trades Council for some years, he was three times a Labour municipal candidate before joining the Communist Party. A district committee member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, he has served on many trade union committees.

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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 : Birmingham Yardley

CANDIDATE : Falconer

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Falconer is a Scotsman and was born in 1909. When he was 20 he emigrated to Canada, where he remained until 1933. In the following year he joined the Communist 1arty. He is chairman of his branch of the transport and General Workers’ Union and also of the Shop Stewards’ Committee. He served for five years 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 : Bolton West

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Lewis was one oi the two Labour M.P.s returned for Bolton in •945. He is a rubber technologist and the inventor of a number of Processes for substitute materials which were widely used during the H war. A steward of the | tfoxmg Board of Control, he has always been interested in sport, especially boxing. He is 37.

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