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 Pavilion

CANDIDATE : Knowles

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Knowles, aged 48, has been a London journalist for many years. He is chairman of the Labour group on Brighton Town Council of which he became a member in 1944, and is vice-president of the Sussex Federation of Trade Councils.

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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 East

CANDIDATE : Goudge

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. J. Goudge, born in 1889 and 20 years a resident in Bristol, has been a footman and a butler and is a steward. He is a former Methodist local preacher, and served in the 1914-18 war with The Royal West Kent Regt.

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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 : Cambridge

CANDIDATE : Symonds

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. L. Symonds, who became first Labour member for Cambridge in 1945 at the age of 34, was formerly a school teacher. By scholarships from an elementary school he went to Perse School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He gained an open scholarship in classics, and graduated with honours in Classics and English. He was chairman of the University Labour Club, and a half-Blue for lacrosse. He saw a good deal of service in the war, and was twice mentioned in dispatches.

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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 North

CANDIDATE : Edelman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Edelman, born in 1911 and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, went into the plywood industry in 1931. As an outcome of his business travels in the Soviet Union, he wrote two books on Russia. He also worked as a war correspondent in North Africa and Normandy. He is specially interested in housing and town-planning. He was elected as M .P. for the old West Coventry division 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 West

CANDIDATE : Rees-Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. R. Rees-Williams, who was appointed Under-Secretary for the Colonies in 1947, is aged 46, and a solicitor. He entered Parliament in 1945 by winning South Croydon. He was a member of the Straits Settlements Bar from 1930 to 1935, and because of his knowledge of colonial affairs was appointed chairman of the Commonwealth and Empire Group of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1946. He served in the Royal Artillery with the rank of colonel in the late war, and is a native of Bridgend, Glamorgan.

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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 : Derby South

CANDIDATE : Noel-Baker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, appointed Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations in 1947, was previously Secretary of State for Air and Minister of State. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1929. Aged 60, he was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a running Blue. He has written several books, and has held the Cassell Professorship of International Relations, University of London. We was a member of the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919; and personal assistant to the British delegate at the League of Nations, 1923-24.

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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 : Ealing North

CANDIDATE : Holloway

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Holloway, scientist, economist and financial expert, who fought Ilford South in 1945, was born in Russia of British parents in 1906. From 1924 to 1943 he was with the Overseas T?lecommunications Service and later in the war assisted in developing a training device used by the Admiralty and R.A.F. He studied social conditions in Britain and abroad and founded the Economic Reform Club and Institute in 1936. He was appointed chairman last year. He is a contributor to monthly journals and has broadcast frequently.

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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 : Edmonton

CANDIDATE : Hubbard

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. P. Hubbard is 40 and senior partner of a firm of accountants in London. He won a scholarship from an elementary school and later qualified as an accountant. Volunteering for the Army during the war, he was directed into accountancy at the American Embassy, and also lectured for the Ministry of Information. Contesting the by-election in 1948, he reduced the 1945 Labour majority from 19,069 to 3,327. An all-round sportsman, he formerly played football for Tufnell Park.

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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 : Finchley

CANDIDATE : McFadyean

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Andrew McFadyean, president of the Liberal Party, was born in 1887 and educated at the University College School, London, and University College, Oxford. He is a company director, and serves on several political and educational bodies. He entered the Treasury in 1910 in open competition and was private secretary to a number of leading political figures. He was on a special financial mission to the United States in 1917 ; was Treasury representative at Paris in 1919-20 ; and secretary to the British delegation to the Reparations Commission, and from 1922 general secretary to the Commission. For aix years, from 1924, he was Commissioner of controlled revenues in Berlin. He was knighted in 1925. He is joint hon. treasurer of the Liberal Party organization.

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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 : Halifax

CANDIDATE : Brook

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Brook, who entered Parliament in 1945, was born in 1884, and as a boy entered the service of a Halifax wool merchant. On the death of his employer about 10 years ago he took over the business. His special interests have been education, trade and industry, housing, and town planning. He joined the I.L.P. in 1910, and for the last 10 years has been a member of the borough council.

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