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 : Bristol North East

CANDIDATE : Apsley

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Apsley was M.P. for Central Bristol, 1943-45, filling the place of her husband, who was killed in a flying accident on active service. She is a qualified air pilot and was keenly interested in flying and hunting until an accident incapacitated her. She is lady of the manor of Iver, Bucks, director of an airways company, president of Gloucestershire Women’s British Legion, and president of Bristol Women’s Electrical Association. While M.P. she was elected national chairman of the Women’s British Legion. She has also been a senior commandant, A.T.S.

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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 : Bromley

CANDIDATE : Elliott

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. J. R. Elliott, formerly a journalist, is married to a London journalist. She has been associated with the trade union and Co-operative movement for 25 years and has toured the United States, South Africa, Europe, and wnrl lc,’ She takes an active Part m social work. She was educated in Glasgow, Manchester, and in Denmark.

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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 : Cheltenham

CANDIDATE : James

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. James, a Fellow of the Chartered Auctioneers’ and Estate Agents’ Institute and winner of the Michael Faraday prize for rating and taxation, is in a business?which he started at 21 in Blackheath, Worcestershire. He has been a local preacher for 20 years and is on the London Council of the Federal Free Church Council. He is an alderman of Rowley Regis, and a former member of Staffordshire 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 : Crosby

CANDIDATE : Bullock

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. Malcolm Bullock was member for the Waterloo division of Lancashire from -1923 until the dissolution. ? He has done much work in international, educational, and Red Cross interests. In the 1914-18 war he was A.D.C. to Lord Methuen, and was attached to the Foreign Office in 1917-18. He was born in 1890, educated in Paris and at Cambridge, and is a barrister, Inner Temple.

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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 : Dagenham

CANDIDATE : Bridges

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Bridges, a marine engineer fitter, born in Scotland, is one of the leaders of the London District Communist Party.

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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 : Doncaster

CANDIDATE : Gunter

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Gunter, who won South – East Essex for the Labour Party in 1945, was born in 1909. In his four years’ service with the Royal Engineers in the war, he was a staff captain at Movement Control H.Q. in Iraq. He has been a branch official of the Railway Clerks’ Association since he was 20. He is a Methodist and a local preacher.

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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 : East Ham North

CANDIDATE : Carroll

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. J. J. Carroll, is 34, has been serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in Hamburg, and was given leave to contest the election. Born in Southern Ireland, he joined the Territorial Army in 1939 and served in North Africa, Italy, Austria, Egypt, Palestine, and Germany. He was commissioned in 1941 and promoted captain the same year. He was a major in the Tank Corps 1943-48.

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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 : Enfield West

CANDIDATE : Jenkins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. G. Jenkins attended Enfield Grammar School. During the war he served with the R.A.F., and gained the rank of Fit. Lt. Later he was attached to the Government of Burma as director of English programmes with Rangoon Radio. He is research and publicity officer of the National Union of Bank Employees.

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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 : Gillingham

CANDIDATE : Burden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. A. Burden, who is engaged in the .y * ?’^>…. import and export busi- *§T ness, was born in 1905 hi and educated at Chelsea. During the last war he served in the R.A.F., first with a Polish unit, afterwards with Eastern 1 Air Command, and later on Lord Louis Mount-batten’s staff. He has three times previously sought to enter Parliament. He was at one time British schools boxing champion.

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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 : Harrow Central

CANDIDATE : Murrell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. W. Murrell, a 33 year old schoolmaster, volunteered as a candidate after the appeal for candidates by Col. Byers, the Liberal Chief Whip. He was educated at St. Luke’s College, Exeter, and Trinity College, London, and served during the war as a captain in the Royal Artillery.

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