Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Berwickshire and East Lothian Constituency – Biography of Stodart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Berwickshire and East Lothian Constituency – Biography of Stodart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Berwickshire and East Lothian

    CANDIDATE : Stodart

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. A. Stodart, aged 33, was educated at Wellington College, started farming at the age of 18, and has made a study of the economics of arable farming. He is vice-chairman of the Scottish Liberal Party.


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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife West Constituency – Biography of Fraser

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife West Constituency – Biography of Fraser

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fife West

    CANDIDATE : Fraser

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. W. N. Fraser was born in 1917, and is managing director of an Edinburgh printers and book publishers. He is a former hon. sec. of the Scottish 1946 Club, and thus became connected with political work. During the war he served in the ranks with the Royal Corps of Signals, and was then commissioned in the R.A.O.C. He attained the rank of major.


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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lanark Constituency – Biography of Dunglass

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lanark Constituency – Biography of Dunglass

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Moray and Nairnshire Constituency – Biography of Murray

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Moray and Nairnshire Constituency – Biography of Murray

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire Constituency – Biography of Scott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire Constituency – Biography of Scott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bermondsey Constituency – Biography of Talbot

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bermondsey Constituency – Biography of Talbot

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bermondsey

    CANDIDATE : Talbot

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss B. E. Talbot did much work with Red Cross and refugee organizations in Belgium, Italy, Turkey, and Russia during and after the 1914-18 war. Later she campaigned energetically for improvements in the conditions of merchant seamen and to gain first-hand experience served before the mast in a ” windjammer.” Also promoted the cooperative cultivation of waste ground and organized sports camps for blind soldiers from St. Dunstan’s.


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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Curthoys

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Curthoys

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cities of London and Westminster

    CANDIDATE : Curthoys

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Curthoys, aged 42, is the chairman of the Chelsea Divisional Labour Party and a member of the borough council. He is a producer of documentary films, and during the war produced 400 film-strips for the War Office. He also directed the documentary film Great Adventure, which the National Film Association presented to the Labour Party.


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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenwich Constituency – Biography of Dale

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenwich Constituency – Biography of Dale

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Greenwich

    CANDIDATE : Dale

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. L. M. Dale, born in 1914, is a company director and a member of the council of Woolwich Chamber of Commerce. He served with the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy and won the D.S.O. at Anzio. As a Territorial officer he commands the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers.


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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holborn and St Pancras South Constituency – Biography of Jeger

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holborn and St Pancras South Constituency – Biography of Jeger

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Holborn and St Pancras South

    CANDIDATE : Jeger

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. S. W. Jeger, a medical practitioner since 1923, won the seat for the Labour Party in 1945. He is 51, and has been a member of Shore-ditch Borough Council since 1926, being mayor in 1930. Elected to the L.C.C. in 1931, he was returned again in 1934 and 1937. In 1946 he Was a member of a Parliamentary delegation to Austria. He visited Spain twice during the civil war on medical aid work for the republicans.


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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Eyre

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Eyre

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kensington North

    CANDIDATE : Eyre

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Eyre was born in 1918 and educated at Marlborough. He is a journalist and is working with a firm of publishers. During the war he became a major in the Psychological Warfare Division in the Far East and was responsible for publishing four local vernacular newspapers and a Forces’ newspaper. In East Java he ran a one-man radio station built by the local population with army aid from Japanese wreckage.


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