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 : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Webb

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Webb stood as Common Wealth candidate at Daventry in 1945. He is 48 and went to elementary and grammar schools at Northampton, and is a boot and shoe manufacturer. An active worker in the Congregational Church, his main interest is the Boys’ Brigade, and he succeeded his father as chairman of Northampton Men’s Own.

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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 : Broxtowe

CANDIDATE : Bailey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. P. E. Bailey was born in 1923 and educated at Oakham School, Rutland. He was one of the youngest officer gunners serving with Bomber Command during the war, in which he lost the sight of one eye when attacked by a German night-fighter. During his service he took part in many big bombing raids. On his discharge he entered the iron and steel 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 : Banbury

CANDIDATE : Robson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. W. Robson is 45 and lives in the constituency at Middle Aston, where he farms 1,000 acres, and, in addition, is senior partner in a firm of accountants in London, Leeds, and Bradford, and of another firm of industrial advisers. He is a member of the Council of the Chartered Institute of Accountants, and is president-designate of the Institute of Costs and Works Accountants. He visited the United States last year as financial adviser to the Anglo-American Council on Productivity, and earlier acted in a similar capacity to Unrra and the International Refugee Organization.

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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 : Somerset North

CANDIDATE : Leather

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. H. C. Leather was born in 1919 in Toronto, where his parents had gone from Manchester. Graduating at the Royal Military College of Canada, he was commissioned in the Canadian Army in 1939. One of the original officers of the 1st (Canadian) Parachute Battalion, he was injured in a parachute failure and spent nine months in a plaster cast. Later he served in Belgium, Holland, and Germany. In 1945 he contested Bristol South. He is in business with a firm of insurance and banking brokers in the City, and lives in 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 : Brierley Hill

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Williams, who is 41, received his education at Plymouth College and the R.A.F. College, Cranwell? He was gazetted pilot officer in 1928, and in 1936 founded a company to develop the Whittle system. In 1941 he was appointed managing director of this concern, and three years later became a director of Power Jets (Research and Development) Limited, a Government-sponsored body. He is a companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a member of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors.

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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 : Eye

CANDIDATE : Granville

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Edgar Granville was elected for Eye in 1929 as a Liberal; returned as a Liberal National in 1935, he became an Independent in 1942, but rejoined the Liberal Party in 1945. He served in the 1914-18 war with the Australian Imperial force, and between 1939 and 1945 he helped to raise the 119th Suffolk Battery, R.A., with which he served as a captain.

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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 : Dorking

CANDIDATE : Touche

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. C. Touche was born in 1895, and educated at Marlborough and University College, Oxford, of which he is a B.A. He is a barrister, author of two law books, and director of several city investment trusts. He has been M.P. for the old Reigate division since 1931, and in the last Parliament was on the panel of Standing Committee chairmen. Before 1931 he had unsuccessfully contested Ashton-under-Lyne and North Islington, of which his father, the late Sir George Touche, was M.P. from 1910 to 1918.

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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 : Guildford

CANDIDATE : Wilkinson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. G. Wilkinson was born in 1897 and is a Co-operative Insuiance Society agent. A member of Guildford Borough Council for 20 years, he is a former Mayor and since 1934 has been a member of Surrey County Council. Before entering the insurance business he was in the engineering trade, and at 25 was appointed district secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He has been a member of the Labour Party since 1918.

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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 : Lewes

CANDIDATE : Kingdon-Ward

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. F. Kingdon-Ward is a writer on travel and lecturer on currency reform, and a director of three companies. She has travelled extensively and has studied central European politics.

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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 : Solihull

CANDIDATE : Lindsay

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Martin Lindsay, who was elected for the division in 1945, is an author and director of companies. During the war he served in Norway and North-West Europe, and was wounded, twice mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the D.S.O. as a battalion commander. Previously he had undertaken extensive explorations in Central Africa and the Arctic. He is chairman of the Midland Union of Conservative Associations. Born in 1905, he was educated at Wellington and Sandhurst.

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