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 : Leominster

CANDIDATE : Morgan-Harris

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Morgan-Harris, an aeronautical engineer who hopes to take up farming in Herefordshire, is 48. He has been test pilot for an air transport company, of which he is managing director. He joined the R.F.C. in the first world war, and saw active service with the R.N.A.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 : Hertfordshire South West

CANDIDATE : Longden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. J. M. Longden, partner in a London firm of solicitors, is 48, and was educated at Hailey-bury and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He qualified with honours as a solicitor in 1924 and practised until 1930, when he became a company secretary in India, resigning in 1937. During the war he served in Burma with the 36th Division. He is chairman of Westminster university extension centre.

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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 : Dover

CANDIDATE : Arbuthnot

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. S. Arbuthnot contested Dover in the 1945 election. Born in 1912 and educated at Eton and Cambridge, he is connected professionally with the tea industry. A Territorial officer in the Royal Artillery, he was seconded for special service in connexion with explosives in 1940, and was later awarded the M.B.E. (military division) for scientific work.

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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 : Maidstone

CANDIDATE : White

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. A. White, aged 52, is the organizer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in the Maidstone and Medway towns area, vice-chairman of the Medway and Swale Dock Labour Board, and a member of the Thames and Medway Joint Industrial Council for the cement industry.

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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 : Clitheroe

CANDIDATE : Randall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. E. Randall, aged 50, son of a farmworker, began life in London as a Post Office messenger and became organizing secretary of the Postal Workers’ Union, a post he still holds. Has been active in the Workers’ Educational Association and served on the executiye. He was recently made a Government Whip. He is a prominent Methodist local preacher in the division. He was first elected 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 : Ince

CANDIDATE : Scott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Scott, aged 42, was articled to a Manchester solicitor, but, forsaking the law, he joined the regular Army. He served throughout the war as an officer of The Royal Welch Fusiliers, and directed a legal advice and welfare bureau.

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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 : Ormskirk

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. C. Edwards was born in September, 1922, and is secretary of the Victoria Settlement Community Centre at Liverpool. He joined the Labour Party in 1946, and is a member of the Fabian Society and of the Liverpool Co-operative Society. During the war he was a full-time civil defence worker and then served with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit. He is chairman of a holiday organization, and is overseer and treasurer of the Society of Friends in Liverpool.

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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 : Loughborough

CANDIDATE : Middup

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. F. Middup is a deputy overman at Newstead Colliery, and he has worked at almost every underground job. For eight years he was president of Newstead branch of Nottinghamshire Miners’ Federation, and is the only Conservative trade union official in the Nottinghamshire union. Born in 1894, he won a scholarship to Sheffield 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 : Gainsborough

CANDIDATE : Crookshank

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. H. F. C. Crookshank won the division for the Conservatives in 1924 and has held it ever since. Born in Cairo and educated at Eton and Oxford he served in the Grenadier Guards in the 1914-18 war and was on the Embassy staff in Washington until 1924. He has been Undersecretary to the Home Office, Secretary for Mines, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Postmaster-General, and chairman of the Conservative agricultural group. He is a bachelor, and aged 57.

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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 : Norfolk Central

CANDIDATE : Jebb

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. V. B. Jebb, aged 22, who came forward as a last-minute Liberal candidate, is reading at Cambridge for a degree in architecture. He is a grandson of Mr. Hilaire Belloc.

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