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 : Crewe

CANDIDATE : Allen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Schofield Allen, K.C., who won Crewe in the 1945 election, is Recorder of Blackburn. Educated at Liverpool University, he was called to the Bar in 1923, practising on the Northern Circuit, and took silk in 1945. He is a member of the Manx Bar and has a commercial and insurance practice. He served in the 1914-18 war, first in the ranks and then with a commission in the R.F.A.

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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 : Stalybridge and Hyde

CANDIDATE : Burden

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. Burden, a solicitor, in partnership at Hyde and living at Romiley, is 33 and was born at Beverley (Yorks). He studied history and law at Cambridge. He served in the war as a rating in the TNavy and took part in Mediterranean engagements. He has been president of Hyde Liberal Association since 1946.

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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 Ives

CANDIDATE : Allison

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. E. F. Allison, born in 1916, won a scholarship from Manchester Grammar School to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took honours in mathematics and a diploma in economics. He was president of the University Liberal Club and of the Union of University Liberal Societies. He is a master at Dulwich College. He commanded a battery in the 5th and 8th Armies in the war.

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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 : Bolsover

CANDIDATE : Cordeaux

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. K. Cordeaux, aged 47, a member of a well-known Conservative family in Lincolnshire, entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1919, but later transferred to the Royal Marines. From 1937 he was employed exclusively on Intelligence work and saw service in the Balkans, the Middle East and other countries, and subsequently was seconded to the Foreign Office. He was made a C.B.E. and holds several foreign decorations.

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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 : Honiton

CANDIDATE : Sargeant

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Sargeant was born in 1895 and is an agriculturist and horticulturist. He is engaged in the marketing of fruit and vegetables. Joining the Labour Party in 1935, he is a member of the West Somerset Co-operative Society. During the 1914-18 war he served in the Army and was wounded three times.

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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 : Totnes

CANDIDATE : Desch

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. H. Desch trained as a farm and forestry pupil and won the Beadel prize in agriculture of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He is a B.A., a B.Sc, and a D.Phil, of Oxford University, and was elected a Fellow of the Surveyors’ Institution in 1938. He has served in forestry in Nigeria and in Malaya, and is now in private practice as a timber consultant, and as a chartered surveyor on conversion schemes to ease the housing shortage. He served in the Federated Malay States Volunteers from 1933 to 1946 and was a prisoner of war of the Japanese from 1942 to 1945.

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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 : Chester-le-Street

CANDIDATE : Bartley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Bartley went to an elementary school, and at 21 to the Catholic Workers’ College, Oxford, where he gained diplomas in economics and political science. For 10 years he was secretary of the Washington Miners’ lodge, and he served on Washington U.D.C. and Durham Caunty Council until appointed conciliation officer for the Durham division of the National Coal Board. From 1942 to 1946 he was assistant labour director for the Ministry of Fuel and Power.

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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 : Sedgefield

CANDIDATE : Slater

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Slater, a miner, aged 46, recently received the B.E.M. for his public work and services to trade unionism. A member of Durham County Council, on which he is vice-chairman of the Highways and Bridges Committee, and formerly of Sedgefield R.D.C., he is treasurer and delegate of Mainsforth Miners’ Lodge, and has been a trade union official for 20 years.

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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 : Harwich

CANDIDATE : Holmes

PARTY : Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir J. Stanley Holmes, aged 70, first sat in Parliament for East Derbyshire, but from 1935 represented the Harwich division. He sponsored the private members’ Bills which eventually became the Inheritance (Family Provision) Act, 1938, and the Coast Protection Act, 1939. A chartered accountant, he is the chairman of a number of companies, and is also vice-president of the Building Societies’ Association.

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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 : Cirencester and Tewkesbury

CANDIDATE : Philipps

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Philipps is the eldest son of Baron Milford, and was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He is farming at Coles-bourne, near Cheltenham. He is chairman of the local branch of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, and a member of the National Farmers’ Union. He is a former member of the International Brigade and drove an ambulance in Spain during the civil war, during which he was wounded.

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