CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Consett
CANDIDATE : Dees
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. N. Dees, aged 34, went to Manchester grammar schools and Manchester University, where he gained an honours degree in history. He has been a tutor for King’s College extramural department and lectured in Germany for the Foreign Office.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Ely
CANDIDATE : Jones
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. G. Jones, a 27-year-old Welshman, is reading for his final law examination at Cambridge and the Middle Temple. He served as a wireless operator-air gunner in the war and was president of Cambridge University Liberal Club in 1949.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Maldon
CANDIDATE : Moody
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. Moody, director of an engineering company, was born in 1911 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He served with the Cold-stream Guards during the war, being for some time personal staff officer to the King of Greece and later w?rking with a Commando unit in Sicily and Italy. He has studied farming at the Royal Agricultural College and is a member of Essex County Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stroud and Thornbury
CANDIDATE : Perkins
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. R. D. Perkins sat for the old Stroud division from 1931 until his defeat in 1945. He was first Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation during the war, and before that he served in the R.A.F. He was educated at Cambridge. He is chairman of Southern Newspapers, Limited. He founded the British Air Line Pilots’ Association and is chairman of the county Air Training Corps committee.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Petersfield
CANDIDATE : Dickson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Cmdr. H. H. L. Dickson is a sailor turned farmer. First going to sea from Osborne and Dartmouth in 1920, he qualified in, naval gunnery and retired in 1946 as gunnery commander, H.M.S. Excellent. Between the wars he took up farming, but was recalled to the Navy at the outbreak of war. He is now farming at Fareham, and is honorary secretary of Hants Liberal Organization.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hertford
CANDIDATE : Scutts
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. Scutts, an optician living at Bishop’s Stortford, was born in 1914. He has taken an active part in local social and political work, and has been chairman of Bishop’s Stortford Council, and of the Hertfordshire Labour Party.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ashford
CANDIDATE : Shirley
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Shirley, born in 1909 and educated at King’s College, London, served in the Navy as a schoolmaster, and on his release took up farming, in which his wife’s family have been engaged in Kent for 40 years. He combines fruit and dairy farming.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Folkestone and Hythe
CANDIDATE : Bateson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. R. W. Bateson, a Scot, born 48 years ago, after many years’ experience in local government work joined her husband as a partner in a firm of valuers in Yorkshire and later became a Fellow of the Valuers’ Association. She founded the Yorkshire Housewives’ Union, and is a former chairman of the National Women Citizens Association. She resigned from the Conservative Party some months ago.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tonbridge
CANDIDATE : Williams
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. Williams entered Parliament as member for the division in 1945. Born in 1903, and educated at Eton and Oxford, he went into business in London, and farmed in his spare time. He is a member of the Conservative finance and agricultural committees, and was chairman of the Small Holdings Committee ; is also keenly interested in agriculture and horticulture, and is a successful point-to-point rider in the locality.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Heywood and Royton
CANDIDATE : Sutcliffe
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Sutcliffe represented the Royton division (now partially absorbed by Heywood) from 1931 to the dissolution. Born in 1898, educated at Harrow and Oxford, and called to the Bar, he was commissioned in the 1914-18 war in the Royal Artillery. He has interested himself in the problems of the cotton industry and the slaughter of horses for human consumption.
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