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 : 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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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 : 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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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 : 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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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 : 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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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 : 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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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 : 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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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 : 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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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 : 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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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 : Lewisham North

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. G. Smith was born in Southwark in 1923, and educated at an elementary school. He passed the Army apprentice examination at 14, and after four years’ technical training went to France with the Royal Corps of Signals and served with the Special Branch. Invalided out in 1945, he became a member of the control room staff of a cable company. He is a branch executive member of the Association of Scientific Workers.

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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 : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Key

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Key, who was appointed Minister of Works in 1947 was formerly a schoolmaster. He is one of the pioneers of the Labour movement in East London, and followed Mr. George Lansbury as member for Bow and Bromley in 1940. He was on the Poplar Council for 30 years, and mayor of the borough three times. In the war he became a Civil Defence Commissioner for London, after being chairman of Poplar Civil Defence Committee. His other public work included chairmanship of the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee.

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