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 : Abingdon

CANDIDATE : Glyn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Ralph Glyn has sat continuously for Abingdon since 1924. During the National Government of 1931 he was joint Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald. He was created a baronet in 1934. Born in 1886, he joined The Rifle Brigade in 1904 after being educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. He contested two by-elections in 1910, and was returned for Clackmannan and E. Stirling in 1918, serving for four years.

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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 : Buckingham

CANDIDATE : Crawley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aidan Crawley, who won the first Labour victory in the division in 1945, was formerly a journalist and producer of educational films, and is married to Virginia Cowles, the American authoress. He was for a time Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was a delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg. Born in 1908, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, and has played cricket for Harrow, Oxford University and Kent.

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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 : Chester

CANDIDATE : Nield

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Nield, K.C., entered Parliament for Chester in 1940 at a by-election. He graduated from Oxford, was called to the Bar in 1925 and took silk after 1 the war, in which he served with the Judge Advocate’s Department at home and in the Middle East. Born in 1903, Mr. Nield is a bachelor.

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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 : Runcorn

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Griffiths, who is 42, is in the corn milling and road transport business. A member of the Market Drayton Urban Council, he also serves on the Shropshire County Council. He comes from a farming family and has had close experience of the agricultural 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 : Cornwall North

CANDIDATE : Richardson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. L. Richardson was born near Salisbury 34 years ago, and now lives in Penzance. He is senior radiographer at the West Cornwall Hospital. He joined the Penzance Borough Council in 1946, and is a member of the executive committee of the South West Regional Council of the Labour Party and of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

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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 : Belper

CANDIDATE : Argyle

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. V. Argyle, a barrister on the Midland Circuit, and 34 years of age, was educated at Westminster and Cambridge. He served eight years in the Army, becoming adjutant of the 7th Queen’s Own Hussars, with whom he won the M.C. in Italy. After the war he was D.A.Q.M.G. Bermuda, and later was attached to the Judge Advocate General’s staff at the War Office.

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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 : Derbyshire West

CANDIDATE : Gratton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Gratton, a Derbyshi?e man born in 1889, worked first as a half-timer and was for 30 years a cotton doubler. He is an alderman of the Derbyshire County Council. For 11 years he was chairman of the West Derbyshire Labour Party, and an area organizer of the National Union of Municipal and General Workers.

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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 : Torrington

CANDIDATE : Chappell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. B. H. Chappell, an ex-regular soldier, was an Exeter policeman from 1926 to 1939, when he resigned on winning £13,000 in a football pool. He then became a licensee at North Tawton, and is now a private inquiry agent in Exeter. He is the holder of all-round sportsman trophies in the Coldstream Guards and Exeter Police. Ex-chairman of South Molton Labour Party. He is the father of 13 children.

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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 : Bishop Auckland

CANDIDATE : Malby

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. W. Malby was born in Norfolk in 1892, went to Bradford with his parents, and entered the textile trade and became an export manager, and now lives in the Bishop Auckland constituency and represents a firm of cattle manufacturers. He is a member of the Gladstone Liberal Club, Bradford, and was a founder member of the West Riding branch of the Institute of Export.

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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 : Jarrow

CANDIDATE : Chalkley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Chalkley was born in 1925 and was educated at Charterhouse School, the London School, Washington, and Harvard University. He is engaged in a mail-order business. He served with the army during the war, and was demobilized with the rank of captain.

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