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 : Devizes

CANDIDATE : Hollis

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Christopher Hollis became member for Devizes in 1945. Born in 1902 and educated at Eton and Balliol, he toured America, New Zealand, and Australia in 1924-25 as a member of the Oxford Union Debating Society. He was an assistant master at Stonyhurst College. A director of a publishing firm and a member of the editorial board of The Tablet, he has been a prolific writer of political works and novels. He served in Greece as a squadron leader in the R.A.F.

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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 : Worcestershire South

CANDIDATE : Hopwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. T. Hopwood, born in 1912 and educated at Malyern College, has been a market gardener since the age of 17 and now cultivates a large market ?arden at Pershore. He served in the Royal Navy during 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 : Scarborough and Whitby

CANDIDATE : Sykes

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. W. Sykes, born in Doncaster in 1915, was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Oxford University, where he read law and was president of Pembroke College Law Society. For five years a grammar school teacher at Wellingborough and Northampton, he was called to the Bar in 1945, and has practised on the Northern Circuit. He is also a practical farmer, and a member of the Campaign Committee of the Yorkshire Liberal Federation.

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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 : Harrogate

CANDIDATE : York

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Christopher York sat for the old Ripon division since 1939. He specializes in agricultural subjects. As a landowner and farmer, he bi eeds ped i-gree T.T. Red Poll cattle near York. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he joined the Royal Dragoons in 1930 and served with them throughout the war. He is 40.

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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 : Shipley

CANDIDATE : Robb

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. L. Robb, who has held various posts in the trade union movement since 1931, has been a member of the Yorkshire district committee of the Communist Party since 1948, and is chairman of the West Riding area 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 : Cardiff South East

CANDIDATE : Furnell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Furnell is aged 22. Educated at Godalming Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford (where he was Kitchener Scholar), he was president of the University Liberal Club in 1947. He joined the R.A.F. in 1948, was commissioned three months later, and is serving at the R.A.F. station near Cardiff.

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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 : Swansea East

CANDIDATE : Mort

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. L. Mort was born in 1888, educated at an elementary school, and has been a steel-worker. He has been a member of Neath Borough Council and has held all the local offices in the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. He was first elected for Swansea East in 1940, and was at one time Parliamentary private sacretary to Lord (then Sir William) Jowitt.

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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 : Conway

CANDIDATE : Hodson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. E. Hodson, who is 25, is a member of an old North Wales agricultural family. He attended the Ford Agricultural Institute, Chelmsford, the University College of Wales, and Gray’s Inn, London. In 1948 he graduated with honours in law from the University of Wales and was called to the Bar in 1949. He served in the Royal Navy during 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 : Flintshire East

CANDIDATE : White

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. White, unsuccessful in her contest in Flintshire in 1945, was born in 1909, a daughter of Dr. Tom Jones, a deputy secretary of the Cabinet in the days of Mr. Lloyd-George. She was formerly in the Civil Service?and later a political journalist. She is on the national executive of the Labour Party, a governor of the British Film Institute, and a member of the Bo; Trade Films 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 : Neath

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. J. Williams, 53, secretary of the Welsh Parliamentary Group in the last Parliament, began work in the mines at the age of 13, and won a Miners’ Federation scholarship to the Labour College. A further scholarship took him to Ruskin College, Oxford, and in 1924 he became a lecturer at the Labour College in Scotland. Returning to Wales in 1931, he became a checkweighman, secretary of the miners’ lodge, and member of the executive of the South Wales Miners’ Federation. He is an ex-chairman of Pontardawe R.D.C.

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