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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 : Lanark

CANDIDATE : Steele

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Steele, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance in the last Parliament, is 45, and was educated at an elementary school. He is the son of a miner and became a railway clerk. Before his election to Parliament in 1945 he was a station-master. He has been a director of Lanark Co-operative Society, and in 1946 was on the Parliamentary delegation to Germany.

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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 : Orkney and Shetland

CANDIDATE : Grimond

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Grimond, who is 36, is the son-in-law of Lady Violet Bonham Carter. He is a scholar of Balliol, having won there the Brackenbury History Scholarship. He also took 1st class Honours in ” Modern Greats.” He is a barrister. He reached the rank of major during the war and then worked with Unrra, leaving that organization to become secretary to the Scottish National Trust.

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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 : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. P. Thomas was born in 1896, and is a company director. He joined the Labour Party in 1926. He has held various positions in the Glasgow Parliamentary Debating Association fcr 15 years, and is a member of the Theosophical Society and founded the Young Theosophical Movement for Scotland in 1923. He is interested in international affairs, and lectured in the United States in 1947.

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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 : Harris

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Percy Harris, who is 73, first elected to Parliament for Harborough in 1916-18, represented S.W. Bethnal Green from 1922 to 1945. For 35 years he has served on the L.C.C. and after the 1949 elections was the only Libera on the council. Educated at Harrow and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was called to the Bar in 1899. He was Chief Whip of the Parliamentary Liberal Party from 1935 to 1945, and deputy-leader in the war-time Parliament, and also chairman of the House of Commons All-Party Panel, and treasurer of the Interparliamentary 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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Carritt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Carritt contested the Abbey division of Westminster in 1945. Born in 1908, he graduated at Oxford. For five years was national organizer of the League of Nations Youth Organization. Joined the Communist Party in 1931, and is secretary of the London Young Communist League. Served with the 14th Army in Burma.

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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 : Brooks

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. P. Brooks, a manufacturer’s agent, aged 32, had an elementary school education. He joined the Conservative Party 15 years ago. A resident in Hackney for 20 years, he was elected to the borough council in 1949, but was defeated in the L.C.C. elections. He served in the Army for six years.

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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 : Buckmaster

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss H. Buckmaster is secretary of Crosby I”1 all, hostel for women undergraduates of London University. She contested Chelms-t?rd in 1945, Educated at London School of economics, she took a post-graduate course in international relations in 1930. She has also been assistant secretary to the North Islington “want Welfare Centre and warden of the Women’s Student Hall, Manchester University.

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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 : Picard

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Picard, aged 46, a barrister, joined the Royal Artillery and was in Malta throughout the siege, and from 1943 to 1945 was Deputy Judge Advocate and chief legal adviser to the Military Commander in Malta. After the war he served on the Control Commission m Germany in connexion with the re-establish-~~nt of democratic local government. He is ; author of a book on insurance law.

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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 : Gough

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. F. H. Gough, born at Kasauli, India, was educated at Cheam School, Osborne, and Dartmouth. After serving three years in the Royal Nayy, he took up farming and horse-breeding in India in 1920. Returning to England in 1922, he became associated with Lloyd’s and joined the Territorial Army. He won the M.C. in 1943 while commanding 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron. He was taken prisoner at Arnhem, escaped and joined ‘he Americans in Bavaria in 1945. He is a director of six companies.

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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 : Purkis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. F. Purkis is 29, and has lived in Poplar nearly all his life. Educated at the Coopers’ Company’s School, Bow, London University College, and Westminster Training College, he is a teacher at Walthamstow. At Poplar he is a Methodist local preacher, superintendent of the Methodist Mission Sunday School, and a scoutmaster.

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