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 : Huntingdonshire

CANDIDATE : MacDonald

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. R. MacDonald is the son of a Conservative ex-mayor of Louth (Lines), where he was born in 1912. Leaving school at 16, he was apprenticed in his father’s engineering business, then worked for three years as a constructional engineer, and began dairy farming in 1936. He owns 100 acres, which he farms intensively and markets his own produce as well as running a butcher’s business. The first Labour member of the Louth Borough Council, he was last year elected to the Lindsey 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 : Faversham

CANDIDATE : Brooks

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Brooks, aged 39, is a London solicitor and director of a publishing company. Serving with the R.A.S.C. during the war, he was captured by the Japanese at Singapore in 1942 and was a prisoner of war for four years. He is vice-chairman of Hornsey Conservative Association and was chairman of the Hornsey local government committee which in 1947 won all 12 seats in a local 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 : Orpington

CANDIDATE : Abrahams

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Abrahams, as wife of Sir Sidney Abrahams, a legal adviser to the Colonial Office and formerly Chief Justice in Uganda, Tanganyika, and Ceylon, has studied racial, welfare, and emigration problems in two continents. During the war she was on the Ministry of Food panel of lecturers, and in 1947 engaged in W.V.S. old folk’s welfare schemes.

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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 : Darwen

CANDIDATE : Booth

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Booth was unsuccessful at West Leeds in the 1945 election. Aged 36, he was Britain’s youngest barrister when called to the Bar in 1936. Three years later he became town clerk of Ossett. He was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F. 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 : Middleton and Prestwich

CANDIDATE : Gates

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. E. Gates was first returned for this division at a by-election in 1940, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning from 1943 to 1945. He is a founder member of the Tory Reform committee and was honorary secretary of the Conservative Party committee on town and country planning in the last Parliament. Born in 1903 and educated at Repton and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he has closely studied political, economic, and social conditions in many countries.

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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 : Westhoughton

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Davies, aged 72, has been M.P. for this division since 1921. He started work at 13 as a farm labourer, then became a miner, and afterwards a Cooperative Society cashier. He organized shop assistants and in 1906 became an official of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers Union, remaining with the union for over 40 years. He was Undersecretary at the Home Office in the 1924 Labour Government, and served 10 years on Manchester City Council. His special interests in Parliament have been social insurance, factory legislation, and world peace.

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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 : Holland with Boston

CANDIDATE : Butcher

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Butcher, theNational Liberal Chief Whip, has represented this division since 1937. Born in 1901, he went 1 to Hastings Grammar School and the College of Estate Management, and is a surveyor and land agent. He has a farm near Boston and served on Peterborough County Council from 1931 to 1937. In 1944 he went on a Parliamentary delegation to Australia and New Zealand.

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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 : Horncastle

CANDIDATE : Clark

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. H. Clark, a teacher with farming as ? side line, has been secretary and chairman of the Gainsborough division of the Labour Party and, since 1946, a member of the Lindsey County Council. During the 1914-18 war he served with The Sherwood Foresters and was taken prisoner. His four sons all served in the R.A.C. in the late war. Born in 1893, he studied at Nottingham University College and at London University.

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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 : Norfolk North

CANDIDATE : Gooch

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. G. Gooch, elected for the constituency in 1945, is president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers and a member of the Agricultural Committee of the International Labour Office. He was United Kingdom adviser at meetings of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Quebec and Copenhagen. Born in Norfolk, where he is a county alderman and a magistrate, he is 59 years old.

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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 : Peterborough

CANDIDATE : Nicholls

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Nicholls, son of a miner, of Walsall, was born in 1912. A barrister of Middle Temple, he has not practised, and is in business at Walsall as a surveyor. Keenly interested in local government in Staffordshire, he is chairman of Darlaston U.D.C. During the war he served in the Royal Engineers in India and Burma, flying home to fight Nelson and Colne at the last General Election.

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