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 : Birmingham Stechford

CANDIDATE : Jenkins

PARTY : Lab

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Jenkins entered Parliament in 1948 for Central South-wark, a seat which disappeared under the redistribution. Aged 30, he is a son of a former M.P. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and was later engaged on intelligence work. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was secretary and librarian of the Oxford Union, He has written a biography of Mr. Attlee.

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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 : Blackpool South

CANDIDATE : Woodward

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. H. Woodward is aged 34 and is managing director of a Trust company in London and Manchester, and is also director of several companies controlling engineering, coal, and publishing. Educated at Bedford School, he is a son of Canon A. L. Woodward. During the war he was commissioned in the R.A.F. He is a freeman of the City of London.

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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 : Bournemouth West

CANDIDATE : Boddy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Boddy, a master at Poole Grammar School, was born in 1916. At Cambridge he was a member of the University Socialist Club. As an officer of the Royal Corps of Signals during the war he served in Assam, Bengal, and the N.W. Frontier, becoming a lieutenant-colonel and staff officer at 14th Army G.H.Q. He also undertook a special mission to China.

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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 : Brentford and Chiswick

CANDIDATE : Noel-Baker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Francis E. Noel-Baker, who is 30 and the son of Mr. P. J. Noel-Baker, a Minister in the last Government, was the youngest Labour M.P. when he won the seat in 1945. Educated at Westminster School and Cambridge, he joined the Fabian Society and was chairman of the Labour Club at Cambridge. He joined the Tank Corps as a private in 1940 and became intelligence officer in the Middle East with temporary rank of major. Journalist and author of books on Greece and Spain, he speaks and writes Greek.

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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 : Bristol North East

CANDIDATE : Woodcock

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss I. Woodcock, daughter of a retired county court judge, was born in 1895 and educated at Frognal School, Hampstead, and Paris. She is chairman of the Women’s Institute Markets, Limited, for Gloucestershire, and a voluntary county organizer for the W.I. movement. A past president of Cheltenham Liberal Association and of the Women’s Liberal Association.

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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 : Bromley

CANDIDATE : Grafton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. W. Grafton, born in 1917, is a twin frn™^?ars a beard to distinguish himself ™Hm h!s brother. He is a chartered surveyor 11 a j n Rust>y player. He broke his leg arm6 ays before the election date was „,nounced and conducted his campaign on and t • Saw war service in India, Ceylon, thi ,iava and with the expeditionary force to the Cocos Islands.

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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 : Cheltenham

CANDIDATE : Lipson

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. L. Lipson was M.P. for Cheltenham from 1937 until the dissolution. He is a former master of Cheltenham College and afterwards was in charge of a private school. He was born in 1886, and was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Sheffield, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. From 1935 to 1937 he was mayor of Cheltenham, and is an alderman of the town and of Gloucestershire County Council.

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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 : Crosby

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Lewis contested Rugby in 1945. Aged 40, and a railwayman, he lives near Mansfield, and is a member of Derbyshire County Council and chairman of the governors of Shirebrook Grammar School. He has been a Methodist preacher for 23 years. He served in the Middle East with the R.A.S.C. in 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 : Darlington

CANDIDATE : Hardman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Hardman, appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education in October, 1945, is aged 48. At Cambridge he held various offices in the University Union and Labour Federation. For 20 years before entering Parliament he was engaged in adult education, and was secretary of Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board. He is a member of Cambridge borough and county councils. He has led delegations to various Unesco conferences.

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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 : Doncaster

CANDIDATE : Barber

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. P. L. Barber, son of the secretary-director of a Doncaster works, is 29. He went to France in 1939 with a Doncaster Territorial unit and was at Dunkirk. Later, he was a pilot in the R.A.F. and was captured by the Germans. He was mentioned in dispatches for his part in escapes from the prison camp, and while a prisoner took a law degree with first-class honours through the International Red Cross. Awarded a State grant to Oxford and an Inner Temple scholarship, he is practising as a barrister.

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