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 : Ludlow

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Williams is 51.?He became education welfare officer for Monmouth at the age of 20, and in 1943 was appointed welfare superintendent for the county. He has twice been chairman of Caerleon Urban District Council and is a member of the South Wales housing and town planning committee.

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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 : Taunton

CANDIDATE : Phillipson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. R. Phillipson, born in 1890, was for 18 years a Tyneside engineer. Later he set up his own engineering business in London, worked under the Ministry of Supply during the war, and also became deputy chairman of a Bristol engineering company. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Administration, and has been on the council of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce.

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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 : Cannock

CANDIDATE : Hickling

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. Hickling holds an honours degree in geography from Bristol University, and for six years before her marriage in 1936 taught in Manchester. During the war she was regional training officer for the W.V.S. in the south-west region. Since April, 1946, she has been a member of the Keynsham Urban Council, and since 1945 a Conservative Central Office staff speaker. She was born in 1910.

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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 : Lowestoft

CANDIDATE : Whitefoord

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj.-Gen. P. G. Whitefoord is 51 and the son of a Lincolnshire rector. Educated in Germany and at St. John’s School, Leather-head, he served as a Regular Army officer with The Lincolnshire Regiment and later the Royal Artillery from 1912 to 1945. He won the M.C. in the 1914-18 war. Between the two wars he held staff appointments in Britain and India, in 1939 he was a staff officer at G.H.Q. of the B.E.F., and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. After commanding the 54th Divisional Artillery, he went to the planning staff at Shaef as a major-general in 1943. As Chief of Staff, Allied Land Forces, in the liberation of Norway, he received a Norwegian decoration, and retired from the Army in 1945.

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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 : Surrey East

CANDIDATE : Wills

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. W. Wills is a 36-year-old housewife, born at Wylde Green, Warwickshire, and now lives at Woldingham. She trained for physiotherapy and orthopaedic nursing and followed her profession in Birmingham, Coventry, and Belfast. During the war Mrs. Wills was in charge of the Coventry Citizens’ Advice Bureau and later was welfare officer to the Hampshire Women’s Land 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 : Woking

CANDIDATE : Watkinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Watkinson, 40, was educated at King’s College, London. An engineer, he is director of a machine tool company. He was engaged for three years in technical journalism and publishing, and served for six years with the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant-commander. He was recently appointed chairman of a committee set up to increase efficiency in the machine tool industry.

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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 : Chichester

CANDIDATE : Packham

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. D. Packham, a London journalist, aged 33, fought East Grinstead in 1945. A parachutist during the war, he recently resigned his commission in The Royal Sussex Regiment. Since his adoption he has helped to form many new Labour Party branches in the villages.

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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 : Sutton Coldfield

CANDIDATE : Mellor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir John Mellor, who won the constituency in 1945, had previously sat for the Tamworth division since 1935. Born in 1893, he was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, and is a barrister of the Inner Temple. He was taken prisoner of war by the Turks at Kut in the 1914-18 war. He is a director of an assurance company.

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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 : Salisbury

CANDIDATE : Morrison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. John Morrison, member for Salisbury since 1942, and son of a former M.P., has extensive agricultural estates in Wiltshire and Scotland. Born in 1906, and educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he served with the Wiltshire Yeomanry in the Middle East in the war and has also been High Sheriff of the county.

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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 : Thorley

PARTY : Ind. C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Thorley is a petty officer in the Royal Navy. Educated at Hull Grammar School, he was a lieutenant, R.N.V.R., Hum-ber division, during the war. After a period in the Merchant Navy, he was for 12 months with the Allied Control Commission, Germany.

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