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 : Stoke Newington and Hackney North

CANDIDATE : Weitzman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Weitzman, who was born in 1898 and educated at Hutche-son Grammar School, Glasgow, and at Glasgow and Manchester Universities, unsuccessfully contesting Stoke Newington in 1931 and again in 1935. He was elected in 1945. He is a barrister, and has a son and daughter who are both reading for the Bar. He served in the first world war in the 3rd Battn. The Manchester Regiment.

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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 : Wandsworth Streatham

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Wilson, a senior master at Streatham Modern School, is a bachelor. Born in 1901, he was educated at the City of London School and Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine. He worked in a leather cloth factory for two years before becoming a teacher. He was secretary of Streatham Liberal Association for three 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 : Altrincham and Sale

CANDIDATE : Erroll

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. J. Erroll, who is 35 and a bachelor, was educated at Oundle and Cambridge and is a director of five engineering companies. Since entering Parliament in 1945 he has been a „ member of delegations to Germany, Burma and West Africa, and has been secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Trade and Industry Committee and deputy chairman of the Parliamentary and scientific Committee. In the war he was a colonel attached to S.E.A.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 : Bath

CANDIDATE : Cardew

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. H. B. O. Cardew, born in 1904, spent many years of his early life in France, where his father was an English chaplain, and was in business in America, France and this country for 10 years befor? taking up medicine. He is the general secretary of the Medical Practitioners’ 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 : Birkenhead

CANDIDATE : Collick

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. H. Collick, born in 1897, was a footplate man on the old L. and S.W. Railway. He became assistant general secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers in 1939. Elected to Parliament in 1945 for West Birken-head, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture until 1947, when he resigned for health reasons.

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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 : Birmingham Handsworth

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Roberts, who first entered Parliament in 1945, is a solicitor with a long record of public service in Birmingham. He was Lord Mayor in 1936. During his term of office he launched the final appeal which realized £250,000 and made possible the completion of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He is a life governor of Birmingham 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 : Birmingham Small Heath

CANDIDATE : Pagett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Pagett, a native of Stourbridge, aged 63, came to Birmingham when he was 15 years of age as an apprentice to the retail grocery trade. He was at one time president of the National Association of Grocers’ Assistants, a forerunner of the National Shop Assistants’ Union. He subsequently became a retail grocer, and staunchly champions the individual trader and the ” little man ” in business. He is a member of the Birmingham City 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 : Blackburn West

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Edwards, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the last Parliament, became an M.P. in 1945, his third attempt, when he won Blackburn from the Conservatives. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health before his appointment to the Board of Trade. He is 45 years of age, and is a B.A. with honours in economics and political science, of Leeds University. In 1938 he was appointed general secretary of the G.P.O. Engineering 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 : Bootle

CANDIDATE : McGinnity

PARTY : Irish Anti-Partitionist

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. McGinnity was born at Newry, Northern Ireland, in 1896, and worked on the land. Moving to Liverpool in 1924, he began work at the docks, where he has remained. A pioneer of the Anti-Partition League in Britain, he is chairman of the Scotland (Liverpool) branch.

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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 : Bradford North

CANDIDATE : Kitching

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Kitching, international Rugby League centre-threequarter of the Bradford Northern club, was born in Bradford in 1921 and educated for the teaching profession. He •S geography and physical training master at Pudsey Grammar School. He toured Australia .and New Zealand with the British Rugby League team in 1946.

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