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 : Lanark

CANDIDATE : Dunglass

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lord Dunglass, heir to the Earl of Home, lost his seat to Mr. Steele in 1945 after holding it since 1931. In the ” caretaker ” Government he was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and has been Parliamentary private secretary to several Ministers, including the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain. He has close family ties with the division and is a former president of the Scottish Unionist 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 : Moray and Nairnshire

CANDIDATE : Murray

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Murray is the son of a fisherman, and was educated at Buckie High School, the Theological College, Selly Oak, Birmingham, and Ruskin College, Oxford. He was formerly employed on the Glen Affric Hydro-Electric Scheme, and later was in the Post Office and in the Department of Agriculture for Scotland. During the war he served in the Intelligence Corps in North Africa and Italy. He is 30.

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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 : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

CANDIDATE : Scott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lord William Scott, who was born in 1896, is the second son of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the Army as a career. While serving with a cavalry regiment in the 1914-18 war he was awarded the M.C., and in the last war he was military secretary to Field-Marshal Lord Alexander. He was elected M.P. for Roxburgh and Selkirk in 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 : Bethnal Green

CANDIDATE : Holman

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Holman was elected for S.W. Bethnal Green in 1945. Born in 1891 and educated at Mill Hill and the London School of Economics, he has been a member of Middlesex County Council and Teddington TJ.D.C. He was sometime lecturer for the Workers’ Educationa Association. He was a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party groups on finance and industry.

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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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Gorsky

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. J. A. Gorsky, educated at King’s College, and a gold medallist of Westminster Hospital, has practised for 30 years in Westminster. He is also a barrister, deputy coroner for East and West Middlesex, divisional police surgeon of the London ” A ” division, and on the central council of the British Medical Association. His wife contested Swindon as a Liberal.

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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 : Hackney South

CANDIDATE : Butler

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Butler: was elected for South Hackney in 1945. He is a former mayor of the borough, and has been a member of the council since 1928 ; he is chairman of the housing committee, and has also been leader of the council. Aged 51, he is a company director, and vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations.

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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 : Holborn and St Pancras South

CANDIDATE : Chapman-Walker

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. J. F. Chapman-Walker was born in 1907, educated at Marlborough and the Sor-bonne, and was admitted a solicitor in 1930. He practises in London, and farms 200 acres at Ware in Hertfordshire. Mr. Chapman-Walker has travelled extensively in India, Australia, and the Far East. He served in the war in 1 he Hertfordshire Regiment, commanding an ^nglo-Australian force in the South-West Pacific.

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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 : Kensington South

CANDIDATE : Spens

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Patrick Spens, K.C., born in 1885, was M.P. for Ashford from 1,933 to 1943. He took silk in 1925 and was Master of the Bench, Inner Temple, 1934. He was Chief Justice of India from 1943 to 1947, and in 1947-48 was chairman ot the arbitration tribunal to settle partition disputes between India and Pakistan. He is a director pi assurance and banking companies. He was knighted in 1943 and created K.B.E. 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 : Lewisham South

CANDIDATE : Morrison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons, was born in 1888 and received his education at Stockwell Road Board School and Lingham Street Church of England School. He began work as an errand boy and shop assistant, and first entered public life as Mayor of Hackney in 1920. He was elected to the L.C.C. in 1922, and in the next year became M.P. for South Hackney. For six years from 1934 he was Leader of the L.C.C. In the Labour Government of 1931 he became Minister of Transport; and in the War Coalition Government he first served as Minister of Supply and later as Home Secretary. In the 1945 election he successfully contested East Lewisham, and after the revision of the constituency chose to contest the new South division.

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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 : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Lonsdale

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Major R. T. H. Lonsdale is an Irishman, born in 1913 and educated at Eastbourne College and Sandhurst. In 1938-39 he was engaged on Waziristan operations in India and gained the M.C. for rescuing four wounded comrades. In the last war he was in the Parachute Brigade. He won the D.S.O. in Sicily, and he won a bar to the medal at Arnhem, where he led the ” Lonsdale Force,” and was twice wounded. He was heavyweight champion of The Royal Leicester Regiment.

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