CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Perth and East Perthshire
CANDIDATE : Wilson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. L. Wilson established himself a few years ago as a market gardener in Blairgowrie. Aged about 26, he is a Bachelor of Science, and during the war was in the War Department as a ” back room boy.”
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Lothian
CANDIDATE : Borrowman
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Borrowman is 32 and a native of Blackridge, West Lothian. A railway worker, he was appointed full-time organizer for the Communist Party two years ago. In 1947 he led a deputation to the House of Commons to press for the establishment of new industries in the county. He unsuccessfully contested a local municipal election.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Battersea South
CANDIDATE : Ganley
PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. C. S. Ganley has for many years been active in public life as a school manager and governor, and as a member of Battersea Council and the London County Council. She was also a director of London Co-operative Society for 28 years, and four times president. She was born in 1879, and had an elementary school education. She was first returned as M.P. for Battersea South in 1945, when her majority was 7,225.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Camberwell Peckham
CANDIDATE : Gibson
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. Gibson, aged 34, son of a Tyneside shipyard worker, is a teacher. He served with the R.A.F. in the war, and is secretary of the local Communist Party.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fulham West
CANDIDATE : Summerskill
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Dr. Edith Summerskill was appointed Jjj Parliamentary Secretary W to the Ministry of Food I in 1945 and is a Privy §J’ Councillor. Born in l”01, she became a doctor in 1924, and was in practice until 1945. khe is married to a doctor, and has two children. From 1932 to 1938, she served on the Middlesex County Council, and was elected to Parliament in 1938.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith South
CANDIDATE : Ritter
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. S. Ritter, who was born in 1925, was educated at Cheltenham and the London School of Economics. A former Civil servant, he is a professional philatelist. In 1947-48 he was chairman of the London University Liberal Federation. During the war he was a radio officer in the Merchant Navy.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington South West
CANDIDATE : Waddilove
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. W. Waddilove is a Fleet Street printer and an active trade unionist. During the war he served with the Air Ministry and for four years was inspector-in-charge of aircraft factories. He is 39.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Vauxhall
CANDIDATE : Lockwood
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. F. Lockwood, who was born in 1896, served four years in the Middlesex Regt., which he rejoined in August, 1939. He saw service in North Africa and in Europe, reaching the rank of major. He is a company secretary and a Freeman of the City of London. For 12 years he was a member of the Camberwell Borough Council, and is a former chairman of the Peckham Conservative Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington North
CANDIDATE : Cohen
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. Cohen, who was educated at council and Central schools, was born in 1917. He is a technician in a furniture factory, and during the war he was a captain of a Lancaster bomber. He has four times contested municipal elections.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shoreditch and Finsbury
CANDIDATE : Thurtle
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. Thurtle, who sat in Parliament as member for Shoreditch from 1923 to 1931 and since 1935, is a son-in-law of the late Mr. George Lansbury, at one time leader of the Labour Opposition. He was born in New York State in 1884 and became an accountant and salesman. In the first world war he was severely wounded at Cambrai and afterwards became an active champion of ex-service men. He has been a Labour Whip and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information from 1941 to 1945. For some years he has been journalist and author.
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