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 : Chippenham

CANDIDATE : Eccles

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Eccles became M.P. for Chippenham in 1943 at a by-election, and has since been one of the more prominent Opposition back – bench speakers. Previously associated with the Central Mining Corporation in London and Johannesburg, he took over the Spain and Portugal departments of the Ministry of Economic Warfare on the outbreak of war. Later he negotiated a trade agreement in Madrid and became economic adviser to the British Ambassadors in Madrid and Lisbon before being transferred to the Ministry of Production. Born in 1904, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford.

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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 : Kidderminster

CANDIDATE : Tolley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L, Tolley, who was born in 1888, entered Parliament in 1945. An engineer, he was educated at an elementary school, and joined the Labour Party in 1917. Mayor of Kidderminster 1942-43, he has been 26 years a member of the town council, besides serving as president of the national savings, food control, and civil defence committees.

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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 : Richmond (Yorkshire)

CANDIDATE : Moore

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. E. Moore, aged 54, was educated at Doncaster, and is now a manufacturer and exporter of electro-plate. He speaks nine languages. An extra-mural lecturer of Sheffield, he lectured to troops before and after the war. He is secretary of Yorkshire Liberal Association and chairman of Yorkshire Liberal Candidates’ Association, and contested Somerby 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 : Don Valley

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Taylor, began work in the mines at the age of 14, and led a strike at Barnsley main colliery at the age of 21. A member of the Yorkshire District Committee of the Communist Party and chairman of the Barnsley branch, he was elected secretary of the Brierly (Ferry Moor) branch of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1942. 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 : Hirst

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. N. Hirst was born in Leeds in 1904 and educated at Charterhouse and St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is chairman and managing director of a Leeds firm of chemical manufacturers. He serves on 19 national and local committees, including that of the Federation of British Industries. He was in the Army during the war and on the Administrative Staff of the 21st Army Group.

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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 North

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Captain D. A. Jones is an accountant with a long record of public work in South Wales and Monmouthshire.

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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 : Rhondda West

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. R. Thomas was born in 1895, and has been a colliery check-weighman since 1922. In 1928 he was elected to Rhondda Urban Council, of which he is still a member, and in 1947 was appointed a member of the South Wales Electricity Board. He has served on joint industrial councils for Wales and Monmouthshire.

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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 : Caernarvon

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Welsh Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Jones was born in Merionethshire 44 years ago and in 1927 graduated at University College, Bangor. He became a teacher with the L.C.C. and took a course in economics at London University. Founding a branch of the Welsh Nationalist Party in London he became its secretary and later became organizer and secretary of the Welsh National 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 : Wrexham

CANDIDATE : Cooper

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. Cooper, formerly a haulage contractor and a past chairman of the Midland Area Road Haulage Association, has farmed in Anglesey since 1945. He is 39.

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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 : Caerphilly

CANDIDATE : Lloyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. J. Lloyd was educated at Rugby. He served from 1939 to 1945 in the Royal Artillery and R.A.S.C, and later joined the Army Bureau of Current Affairs. He is now with a Midland advertising company, and broadcasts.

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