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 : Derbyshire South East

CANDIDATE : Champion

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. J. Champion was elected for the division in 1945. In 1949 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Strachey, then Minister of Food. Born in 1897 he became a railway signalman and was for severalyearsamember of the executive of the N.U.R. ; and also served on Pontypridd council. He investigated labour relations in Norway for the Fabian Society, and in 1949 lectured for the British Infoimation Service in the United States.

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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 : Tiverton

CANDIDATE : Duffy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. P. Duffy, aged 29, was born in a Yorkshire mining village and with the aid of scholarships won his way to the London School of Economics, where he took a B.Sc.(Econ.) degree with honours last year. He is engaged on research at London University. Gaining a commission in the Navy during the war he served with the Fleet Air Arm and was in command of the Naval School of Air Radar. His injuries in the war necessitated a long course of plastic surgery treatment.

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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 : Dorset West

CANDIDATE : Kane

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. C. J. Kane is a dairy farmer and breeder of pedigree Guernseys, and in 1938-39 was president of the English Guernsey Cattle Society. In the first world war he served in France and Italy, and in the second in West Africa before he was invalided out in 1943. He served with the Control Commission in Germany.

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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 : Houghton-le-Spring

CANDIDATE : Blyton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. R. Blyton, born 1899, went to an elementary school and then worked in the mines. He was chairman of his lodge from 1928 to 1942, then secretary for three years, and four times a member of the executive of the Durham Miners’ Association. From 1921 to 1945 he served on the Court of Referees, and for 10 years was a member of the South Shields council, being chairman of the education and electricity 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 : Chelmsford

CANDIDATE : Millington

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Wg. Cdr. E. R. Millington won the division as a Common Wealth candidate in a by-election in 1945 and retained it at the general election, transferring to the Labour Party in 1946. Born in 1916 and brought up in commercial life, he joined the Royal Engineers after Munich and later became a wing commander in the R.A.F. and took part in many bombing missions ?ver Europe. He has lectured in 10 countries on international affairs.

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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 : Thurrock

CANDIDATE : Delargy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. Delargy sat for the Platting Division of Manchester in the last Parliament. Educated in France and Italy, he has been in turn a teacher in a private school, a journalist, a canvasser, and a labourer. In five years’ service with the Royal Artillery he began in the ranks and ended as a staff captain at General Eisenhower’s headquarters. He is 41.

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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 : Gloucestershire West

CANDIDATE : Houldsworth

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. H. B. Houldsworth was born in 1922 and was educated at Huddersfield Technical College and Leeds University, where he qualified as a doctor. Before being called up, Capt. Houldsworth was senior anaesthetist at Leeds General Infirmary, and he is now in the R.A.M.C. He comes from a family with a Liberal tradition, his father, Sir H. Houldsworth, K.C., having contested Pudsey and Otley in 1929, and his mother is a Liberal member of the West Riding 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 : Hereford

CANDIDATE : Farr

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Farr is also a member of the city council and the county council. Of humble beginnings, is now a well-known constructional engineer. He holds many public positions, including the presidency of the local Liberal association, and is a leading advocate of the Severn bridge project.

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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 : St Albans

CANDIDATE : Grimston

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Grimston was M.P. for the division 1943 to 1945, when he was defeated. Born in 1912, he is brother to the Earl of Verulam, and was educated at Oundle and Oxford. He spent two years tobacco farming in Southern Rhodesia, and is general manager of an Enfield company. He has had a wide experience of factory and production problems.

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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 : Chislehurst

CANDIDATE : Wallace

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. D. Wallace, aged 43, won the division in 1945, and became an assistant Government whip in 1947. He served in the R.A.F. during the war. From 1937 to 1946 he was a member of Chislehurst-Sidcup Urban District Council. In 1949 he attended the annual conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Stockholm. He has been a member of the Labour Party for 17 years and is specially interested in social welfare questions and the youth movement.

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