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 : Edinburgh West

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Morgan an insurance agent, aged 41, has been active in Co-operative and trade union circles for many years. He is chairman of East of Scotland Council of Co-operative Societies, and has been secretary of the West Lothian Divisional Labour Party and vice-chairman of West Lothian Trades 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 : Glasgow Gorbals

CANDIDATE : McGuinness

PARTY : Irish Anti-Partitionist

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McGuinness is a former vice-president and treasurer of the Labour Party in Gorbals, but left the Party in May last when the Ireland Act was passed. He stood for ” Ireland United and Scotland Free.”

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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 : Glasgow Pollok

CANDIDATE : Galbraith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. T. D. Galbraith, who was joint Under-Secretary for Scotland in 1945, was elected in 1940. Born in 1891, he was educated at Glasgow University and the R.N. Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, served in the 1914-18 war and at the R.N. Staff College, Greenwich, retiring in 1922. In the last war he was on the staff of the Scottish naval command. He is a partner in a Glasgow firm of accountants, and was a member of Glasgow Corporation for seven 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 : Glasgow Woodside

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. Bennett, unsuccessful in the Shettleston division in 1945, is a member of Glasgow Royal Exchange, the Chamber of Commerce, and Glasgow Trades House. He is immediate past president of the Scottish Unionist Association. In the 1914-18 war he was wounded while an officer in the Tank Corps. He is a former magistrate and member of Glasgow Corporation.

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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 : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : McAlister

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. McAlister, aged 36, is a coach-builder and chairman of the Stirlingshire area committee of the Communist Party. He is president of the Scottish shop stewards’ council of the National Union of Vehicle Builders.

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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 : Ayr

CANDIDATE : Pollock

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Pollock, a native of Kilmarnock, is 56 and an insurance agent. He contested Kilmarnock as an l.L.P. candidate in 1929 and 1935. He was a Labour member of Ayr Town Council for 1945 until defeated last year. He is a member of the National Consultative Committee of Insurance Unions.

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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 : Berwickshire and East Lothian

CANDIDATE : Anstruther-Gray

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. J. Anstruther-Gray sat in Parliament from 1931 to 1945 as member for North Lanark and has held the posts of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary for Overseas Trade, and Assistant Postmaster-General. Born in 1905, a son of the late Colonel W. Anstruther-Gray, M.P., he was educated at Eton and Oxford and took a commission in the Coldstream Guards. He served in North Africa, France, and Germany with the Guards and the Lothians and Border Horse.

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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 : Fife West

CANDIDATE : Hamilton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. W. Hamilton, a school teacher, was born in 1917. Joining the Labour Party in 1936, he is specially interested in education, mining, and foreign affairs, and lectures for the W.E.A. and N.C.L.C. He served as a captain in the Middle East during the war. He contested the seat 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 : Hamilton

CANDIDATE : Monteith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. R. C. M. Monteith, a chartered accountant, is the son of a former convener of Lanarkshire, andus himself a county councillor. He served on many fronts in the war as an officer in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry.

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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 : Stuart

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Stuart was born in 1897, and is the third son of the seventeenth Earl of Moray. He was educated at Eton and served in The Royal Scots in the 1914-18 war, in which he won the! M.C., and became aj brigade-major in 1918. For a time he acted as equerry to the Duke of York and entered Parliament in 1923. He was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1935 to 1941, and was Government Chief Whip from 1941 until 1945. He then became Opposition Chief Whip, a position from which he resigned in 1948 on grounds of ill-health.

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