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 : Brighton Kemptown

CANDIDATE : Johnson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Johnson is 38, and a solicitor. A pre-war Territorial, he served in Africa in the war and was invalided out as a major. He was a member of Brighton Town Council from 1945 until last May, when he retired. Educated at Brighton and Highgate, he has spent most of his life in the town. He is also a director of 14 land and estate development 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 : Bristol South

CANDIDATE : Maydon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. S. C. L. Maydon is 36 and was born in South Africa and educated at the Dartmouth Royal Naval College. After 21 years’ service in the Navy he was appointed to the Royal Naval Staff College. He holds the D.S.O. (and bar) and D.S.C., and lives at Wraxall, near Bristol.

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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 : Bury and Radcliffe

CANDIDATE : Fletcher

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr.Walter Fletcher, aged 57, who first entered Parliament in 1945, is an expert on rubber and Far Eastern affairs, being chairman and managing director of a firm of rubber merchants, and past chairman of the Rubber Trade Association. He was reputed to be the heaviest man in the last House of Commons, turning the scale at 19 stone. He has a farm in Hertfordshire, and, as an artist, has exhibited at the Royal Academy. For special service in the Far East in 1939-46 he was made a C.B.E.

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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 : Coventry East

CANDIDATE : Crossman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. S. Crossman who failed in the West Birmingham by-election in 1937, was born in 1907, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. He turned to lecturing in preference to following his father, a High Court Judge, into the legal profession. He organized psychological warfare against Germany and was one of the B.B.C.’s leading speakers in German. A member of General Eisenhower’s Anglo-American propaganda team in North Africa, he later joined Shaef in a similar capacity. He has been assistant editor of the New Statesman and Nation since 1945. He entered Parliament 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 : Croydon North

CANDIDATE : Harris

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Harris won North Croydon at a by-election in March, 1948, when he defeated Mr. Harold Nicolson, increasing the Conservative majority from 607 to 11,664. Thirty-five years old, he is managing director of a food products firm. He owns a ‘arm in Kenya, and a number of racehorses, one of which won the weat Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom two years ago. He has been a member of Croydon Borough 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 : Dartford

CANDIDATE : Giles

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. H. Giles, a research engineer, was born in 1915 and educated at Winkfield County School, Berkshire. He served with The Rifle Brigade during the war, and was wounded at El Alamein. As a branch official of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, he is a delegate to Holborn Trades Council. He lives at Kenley, Surrey.

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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 : Dudley

CANDIDATE : Farran

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. R. A. Farran was born in India in 1921 and educated there and at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the 3rd Hussars, and in an adventurous service career gained many decorations including the American Legion of Merit and the Croix de Guerre. In 1948 he went to Southern Rhodesia, where he is a director of several companies, returning in October last after offering to contest Dudley for the Conservatives.

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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 : Eccles

CANDIDATE : Proctor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Proctor won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Formerly a railway worker, Mr. Proctor is a former branch secretary of the National Union of Rail-waymen, and was once its representative on the International Transport Federation. He was born in 1896.

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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 : Exeter

CANDIDATE : Maude

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr.J.C. Maude, K.C., entered Parliament for Exeter in 1945. He is a son of Sir Cyril Maude, the actor, and was born in 1901. . Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 1925. From 1939 until 1944 he was Recorder of Devizes, and then became Recorder of Plymouth. He took silk in 1943. At the outbreak of the second world war he became an officer in the Intelligence Corps, serving in this country and for 12 months in Washington as security officer for various British missions. Returning to England in 1942, he was employed in the Cabinet offices.

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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 : Gosport and Fareham

CANDIDATE : Nobes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. R. Nobes, born in 1905, is a shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard. He attended the Dockyard Upper School and later the Municipal College for Naval Architecture. He was chairman of the Gosport Labour Party in 1928. He has served on the Gosport Borough Council since 1934, was mayor from 1946 to 1949, and was a member of the Hampshire County Council from 1943 to 1949.

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