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 : Rutherglen

CANDIDATE : Brooman-White

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. Brooman-White is a journalist and took an honours degree in economics and modern languages at Cambridge. He served in the war and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. A former secretary to Sir Archibald Cochrane, Unionist M.P. for Dunbartonshire, of which Mr. Brooman-White is a native, he was for a year in the diplomatic service at the British Embassy in Turkey.

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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 : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Wilson established himself a few years ago as a market gardener in Blairgowrie. Aged about 26, he is a Bachelor of Science, and during the war was in the War Department as a ” back room boy.”

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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 Lothian

CANDIDATE : Borrowman

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Borrowman is 32 and a native of Blackridge, West Lothian. A railway worker, he was appointed full-time organizer for the Communist Party two years ago. In 1947 he led a deputation to the House of Commons to press for the establishment of new industries in the county. He unsuccessfully contested a local municipal 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 : Battersea North

CANDIDATE : Mahon

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Mahon, a member of the Communist Party since 1921, is the author of “British Trade Unionism,” and a number of pamphlets. He was for many years secretary of the First of May Committee, which organized May Day demonstrations. In 1937 he served in the International Brigade in Spain.

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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 Peckham

CANDIDATE : Gunnell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Gunnell, born in 1918, is an accountant. He was in The Artists’ Rifles and the R.A.S.C. during the war, and later became a lecturer on military law. He is interested in work among youth.

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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 : Fulham East

CANDIDATE : Ellesmere

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Ellesmere, born in Fulham in 1906 served on the divisional council of the Building Trade Workers and has been a tederation steward since 1946, and six times a national delegate to the Trades Union Congress. He served oversea for three years in 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 : Hammersmith South

CANDIDATE : Fell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony Fell, who lost the 1949 by-election by 1,613 votes, was born in 1914 and educated at Bedford Grammar School and in New Zealand. He has been a sheep farmer and engineer, and is a member of the Institute of Industrial Administration. Mr. Fell unsuccessfully contested Brigg in 1948.

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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 : Islington South West

CANDIDATE : Howard

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. F. Howard, aged 71, at 19 set up his own business as a book-binder. Since 1920 he has operated a profit-sharing scheme in his works. He became Conservative member for South Islington on the London County Council in 1925, capturing the seat for his party for the first time in 27 years. He represented South Islington as Conservative M.P. from 1931 to 1935.

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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 : Lambeth Vauxhall

CANDIDATE : Strauss

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Strauss, Minister of Supply and M.P. for North Lambeth until the dissolution, was first elected for that constituency in 1929. Defeated in 1931, he was re-elected in 1934, and has served continuously since. He has been Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Herbert Morrison and Sir Stafford Cripps, and before his appointment as Minister of Supply was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport. A member of the Labour Party for 30 years, he was expelled in 1939 for supporting the Cripps ” Popular Front ” campaign. He was formerly a leading member of the L.C.C., on which body his wife now represents Vauxhall. He is in business as a metal merchant.

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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 : Paddington North

CANDIDATE : Seabrook

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Seabrook, born in 1919, was educated at Cranleigh School and Oriel College. Oxford, where he read law, economics and political science. He was President of the Oxford University Liberal Club in 1946. In the war he was with the 8th Army in the Middle East and was Air Liaison Officer in India and Burma. He is an articled clerk to a firm of solicitors.

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