CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds South East
CANDIDATE : Kirwin
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. E. Kirwin, born in Leeds in 1907, is a schoolmaster. He is chairman of the Leeds Catholic Consultative Committee. Joining the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in 1939 as a private, he rose to the rank of captain.
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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 : Leicester South West
CANDIDATE : Russell
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. D. Russell is the first woman to stand for a Leicester division. Born at Woodhouse, Yorkshire, she is welfare officer to a Leicester engineering company. She is the only woman member of the Leicester City Council.
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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 : Liverpool Garston
CANDIDATE : Raikes
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. V. Raikes was born in 1901, educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and called to the Bar in 1924. He unsuccessfully contested llkeston in 1924 and 1929 and was elected for South-East Essex in 1931. In 1945 he was returned for Wavertree, Liverpool, which has disappeared under the redistribution. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.V.R.
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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 : Liverpool Wavertree
CANDIDATE : Hamling
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. Hamling unsuccessfully contested Southport in the 1945 election. He was born in Kirkdale in 1916, graduated from Liverpool University, served with the Royal Marines for five years, and after the war became an organizer and tutor in the Adult Education movement.
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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 : Manchester Clayton
CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Thorneycroft, who was elected for Clayton in a by-election in 1942 and re-elected in 1945, is a hairdresser and a former president of the National Federation of Hairdressers. Born in 1892, he served in the 1914-18 war, and in 1923 was elected to Manchester City Council, of which he is an alderman. A former Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Air, he is also on the Police Counc.l.
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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 : Manchester Wythenshawe
CANDIDATE : Hill
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. E. Hill, who has lived all her life in Manchester and has been a member of the city council for 14 years, is 52. Since 1943 she has been Manchester Organizer of the W.V.S. She has also been chairman of the local Poppy Fund Committee, the Health Committee?of the city council, and the South Manchester Hospital Management Committee.
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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 : Mitcham
CANDIDATE : Page
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss D. Page is 45 years of age and was educated at Highbury Hill School and Bedford College. From 1939 to October, 1941, she was leader of the ambulance unit in Enfield and served with the V.A.D. in local hospitals. In 1942 she joined the B.B.C. European news service. After the war she became assistant to the Press attache at the Yugoslav Embassy and later private secretary to trie Ambassador, from which position she resigned when the Ambassador was recalled to Belgrade.
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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 : Newcastle upon Tyne West
CANDIDATE : McNair
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. McNair, aged 27, is an engineer. At 19 he joined the Communist Party. During the war, he served in Greece and Egypt. In 1949 he was a delegate to the World Peace Congress in Paris.
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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 : Nottingham North West
CANDIDATE : Gardner
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. Gardner, an architect and surveyor for a Nottingham firm of brewers, was educated at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School, Nottingham, and Nottingham University College, and is 48. He is an office holder in several ex-service men’s organizations, and a keen sportsman. In the war he was employed on anti-submarine devices and mine laying.
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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 : Oxford
CANDIDATE : Hogg
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Quintin Hogg, born in 1907, the eldest son of Viscount Hail-sham, entered Parliament in 1938. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, was President of the Union in 1929, and later was called to the Bar. He was commissioned in The Rifle Brigade in 1939 and served in the Middle East and was wounded in the Western Desert in 1941. In the last weeks of the Coalition Government he was appointed joint Under-Secretary for Air, a post which he also held in the ” caretaker ” Government. He is the author of several works on legal and political affairs.
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