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 : Leeds West

CANDIDATE : Rhodes

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Rhodes, aged 48, is the son of a Bradford man who became one of the pioneers of the Hull fruit trade. As a youth lie sailed round the world and afterwards served throughout the 1914-18 war. He is vice-chairman of the Withernsea Urban 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 : Leyton

CANDIDATE : Sorensen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. W. Sorensen has represented the old West Leyton division in Parliament since 1935 and from 1929 to 1931. At the 1945 election he had a majority of 8,729. He started work at 14 as an errand boy, studied to enter the ministry, and became minister of the Free Christian Church, Walthamstow. In 1923 he joined the local Labour Party and became a member of the Walthamstow Council and of the Essex County Council. He is keenly interested in Colonial affairs and is a vice-president of the Indian Friendship League and a member of the Fabian Colonial Bureau Advice Committee.

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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 : Liverpool Kirkdale

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D.?J. Lewis, an architect practising in Liverpool, was born at Aberystwyth and educated at the University there and at Liverpool. He has been on the city council since 1935 and is chairman of the Corporation Estate Committee. He is a member of the probation and juvenile panels. He is chairman of Liverpool Welsh Choral Union.

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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 : Luton

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. C. Hill is well known as the ” Radio Doctor,” and holds the following appointments : Secretary of the British Medical Association and Central Medical War Committee ; president of the World Medical Association ; secretary of the Commonwealth Medical Conference; vice-president of the Central Council for Health Education ; and member of the Industrial Health Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labour. His broadcast a few days before the election was regarded by many people as one of the most notable of the series. He contested Cambridge unsuccessfully as an Independent in 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 : Manchester Exchange

CANDIDATE : Harper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. S. Harper, a director of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, was born in 1902, and educated at Manchester and at the Ashridge Political College, Herts. From 1921 to 1932 he was employed in general and electrical engineering. He has been a member of Manchester City Council since 1932, and was also a member of Lord Soulbury’s committee on Unemployment Assistance. He has held political posts in Manchester as secretary and agent.

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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 : Merton and Morden

CANDIDATE : Ryder

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. R. E. D. Ryder, R.N., V.C, was born in 1908 and was educated at Cheltenham College. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1925, and was awarded the King’s Dirk while serving in the cadet training ship H.M.S. Erebus. He was promoted commander in December, 1940, and captain in June, 1948, and commanded the research vessel Penola on the Rymill Expedition to the Antarctic. He was naval liaison officer on the staff of Field-Marshal Alexander at the headquarters of Southern Command. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for the part he played while in command of the naval forces in the St. Nazaire raid in 1943, and was three times mentioned in dispatches. Since the war he has been British Naval Attache at Oslo.

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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 : Newcastle-under-Lyme

CANDIDATE : Friend

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. A. Friend is a Regular Army officer who was commissioned in 1936 after education at Harrow and Sandhurst, and retired in 1947. He served with the 7th Armoured Division in the Middle East and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was a liaison officer through the Battles of Alamein and of the Western Desert, and was later posted as chief armoured car instructor at Sandhurst. In 1944 he took part in the liberation of Europe, and in 1945 was with the Allied Military Government of Hanover.

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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 : Norwich North

CANDIDATE : Paton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Paton was born in Aberdeen in 1886 and is a journalist. In 1945 he won one of the two Norwich seats from the Conservatives with a majority of 7,328. He is a member of Herts County Council and was on the defunct Barnet Board of Guardians and Welwyn Garden City Council. His wife, Mrs. Florence Paton, was also a Labour M.P. in the last Parliament but was unsuccessful at Carlton (Notts) in this election.

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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 : Nottingham South

CANDIDATE : Rees-Davies

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, born in 1916, was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he was a prominent cricketer. He was called to the Bar in 1939, and is a practising barrister. Commissioned in the?Welsh Guards at the outbreak of the late war, he served later, on the staff of Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, with the Guards Armoured Division. He lost his right arm while on 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 : Plymouth Devonport

CANDIDATE : Foot

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Michael Foot, born in 1913, a son of Mr. Isaac Foot, was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Wadham College, Oxford (exhibitioner). In 1933 he was president of the Oxford Union and . toured the United States as the representative of the Union. A member of the Labour Party executive, he is a journalist, and is the author of several political books.

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