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 : Greenock

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Irish Anti-Partitionist

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. O. Brown, a teacher of languages, was born in 1902 and educated at the universities of Glasgow and Paris. Three times he contested East Renfrewshire unsuccessfully as Scottish Nationalist candidate, and was the first representative of the Party to save his deposit.

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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 : North Angus and Mearns

CANDIDATE : Jurtice

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. R. Justice, who is 44, was Labour Party ag^nt at Galloway in 1945. He has had a variety of jobs, having been a farm hand in Canada and an officer in the Navy during the war, and is an actor. He played Petty Officer Evans in Scott of the Antarctic and the doctor in Whisky Galore.

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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 : Kilmarnock

CANDIDATE : Shaw

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. A. D. MacI. Shaw was one of Mr. Asquith’s opponents in the Paisley by-election in 1923, and in the next year was elected member for Bridgeton division of Glasgow, which he represented until 1929. Aged 54, he is a son of a former Lord Provost of Glasgow, and managing director of a firm of ironfounders. He served in India during the last 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 : Dunbartonshire East

CANDIDATE : Kirkwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Kirkwood was member for the old Dumbarton Burghs division since 1922, and in spite of his 78 years is still an active worker for Clydeside, with which he has been long associated. Educated at Parkhead Public School, he was trained as an engineer and for many years was recognized as the engineers’ leader in Scotland. He was on Glasgow Town Council for four years before entering Parliament. He was a strong advocate of the Government financial support for building the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth. In 1948 he was made a Privy Councillor.

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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 : Ross and Cromarty

CANDIDATE : Reid

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. C. Reid, born in 1925, took an M.A. degree with honours in economics and politics at Glasgow University, where he is studying law. He founded the Glasgow University Labour Party, was its first secretary and has been chairman. In the last war he worked as a coal miner.

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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 : Lanarkshire North

CANDIDATE : Herbison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Herbison was born in 1907 and educated at Glasgow University and is a teacher. A daughter of a miner, she has been associated with the Labour movement all her life. She won North Lanark from the Conservatives in 1945. She is the only woman member of the Miners’ Welfare Commission, and she went to Strasbourg last August as the only woman delegate of the British Government to the Council of Europe. She is a member of the national executive of the Labour 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 : Kinross and West Perthshire

CANDIDATE : McLaren

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. D. McLaren was born at Balquhid-der 39 years ago and was educated at Edinburgh University. Although a qualified chartered accountant, he never practised. As a major in the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, he was attached to the British Intelligence Service in the war. He also served with General Eisenhower’s Intelligence Staff, and was three years at Shaef, where he was head of the economic counter-espionage intelligence. His wife is an official of the American Intelligence Service.

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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 : West Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Anderson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss B. M. H. Anderson was born in 1915 and educated at St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrews. She has been a member of Stirling County Council since 1945, and before that she was a member of the Dunnipace District Council for 10 years. During the war Miss Anderson held the rank of chief commander of the A.T.S., and was the first woman member of the Glasgow Territorial 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 : Camberwell Dulwich

CANDIDATE : Jenkins

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. D. Jenkins, a director of a number of private companies, is an alderman of Kensington Borough Council, of which he has been a member since 1927, and is leader of the Conservative Party. He was the mayor of Kensington throughout the war, and represented that borough on the London County Council from 1934 to 1949. He was born in 1900, and educated at Latymer Upper School.

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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 : Deptford

CANDIDATE : Stannard

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Stannard is an electrician who has lived in Deptford all his life. He has served on the committee of the London and South-East branch of the Electrical Trades Union, and is a delegate to the Deptford Trades Council, of which he is an executive member. He served with the R.A.F. in the Middle East, Greece, Italy and France in the last war. Since his return from the forces he has been secretary of the Deptford Communist Party.

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