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 : Tiverton

CANDIDATE : Amory

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Heathcoat Amory became M.P. for the division in 1945 in succession to Sir G. Acland Troyte. Born in 1899 and educated at Eton and Oxford, he is a silk manufacturer and banker. A member of Devon County Council since 1932, he has also served on many other local government bodies, and is a governor of Blundell’s School and a former joint master of the Tiverton Foxhounds. For 20 years he was a Territorial officer, and from 1940 to 1945 was on the General Staff, and was in action at Salerno. In the Arnhem airborne operations he was severely wounded and taken prisoner.

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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 : Dorset West

CANDIDATE : Digby

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Wingfield Digby, aged 39, has represented West Dorset for the last eight and a half years, and was appointed a Conservative Whip in 1948. A barrister, he served in the Army throughout the war and rose to the rank of major. He was one of the originators of the Design for Freedom movement and its treasurer, and was a member of the Tory Reform Committee from its formation until he became a Whip.

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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 : Easington

CANDIDATE : Macfarlane

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. A. Macfarlane studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and is aged 41. He is a member of a West Hartlepool firm of forwarding agents, and a member of the Tees and Hartlepool branch of the National Docks Labour Board and of Hartlepool Dock Advisory Committee. During the war he served in the Army and reached the rank of major.

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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 : Chelmsford

CANDIDATE : Ashton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Ashton, a company director and farming 300 acres at Ingat’e-stone, is Deputy Lieutenant and has been High Sheriff of the county, and is vice-chairman of Essex County Council and president of Essex County Cricket Club. Born in 1898, he was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, where he gained a triple blue in cricket, football, and hockey. He won the M.C. in the first world war.

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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 : Saffron Walden

CANDIDATE : Smedley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. O. Smedley started work as a stores clerk in a Paris factory and is now partner in a firm of chartered accountants. A Rugby player and Belsize Club boxer, he served with the Royal Artillery through the war in the Middle East and Sicily, and landed in Normandy on D Day. He was twice wounded and won the M.C.

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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 : Gloucestershire West

CANDIDATE : Boston

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. F. Boston, who was born in 1921, was at Wellington College, and from 1939 to 1943 he served in the Army and was a Southern Command staff officer. He returned to Clare College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree, and then became a lecturer on constitutional history and economics at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and has recently taken a post as a master at Clifton College, Bristol. He is a former president of the Cambridge Union, and was secretary of the cricket club.

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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 : Hereford

CANDIDATE : Pigott

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Pigott is mayor of Hereford and has taken an active part in local government, having been a member of the city council since 1932, and has done much work in connexion with housing. He is chairman of Hereford Labour Party and secretary of the divisional party. He was born in Scotland in 1900, attended Glasgow Academy, and later went to Ruskin College. He is a medical herbalist.

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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 : Hitchin

CANDIDATE : Haigh

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. S. Haigh, aged 47, is director of a Bond Street firm of brokers, and one of the founders of Westminster Chamber of Commerce. He is chairman of Finchley Liberal 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 : Chislehurst

CANDIDATE : Hornsby-Smith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Pat Hornsby-Smith became Conservative candidate for th; division in 1946. Aged 35, she was secretary to the Earl of Selborne when he was Minister for Economic Warfare from 1941 to 1945. Beginning her political career in the old Junior Imperial League, she later took an active part in the Young Conservative movement and has been prominent in other sections of the Conservative 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 : Isle of Thanet

CANDIDATE : Carson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Carson, born 1920, is a son of the late Lord Carson. After being educated at Eton and Cambridge, and passing through Sandhurst, he obtained a commission in the Life Guards and served in Syria, Italy, and Germany. He had intended to follow his father as a lawyer, but the war interrupted his studies and he entered Parliament in 1945 as member for this division.

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