CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bexley
CANDIDATE : Job
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. Job is an electrical fitter and a shop steward at Deptford East power station and chairman of Bexley Communist Party. He is a lecturer on social, economic, and political subjects. He is 35.
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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 : Birmingham Erdington
CANDIDATE : Fitzgerald
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. A. Fitzgerald is an ex-regular soldier who was born in 1896. In the 1914-18 war he was with The Gordon Highlanders and the Machine Gun Corps, and continued with the Royal Tank Regiment until 1939, when he retired as a staff sergeant. In the last war he commanded a Home Guard company.
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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 : Birmingham Northfield
CANDIDATE : Richards
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. Richards is an undergraduate at Worcester College. He is aged 23, and is a uauve of Swansea. His studies at Oxford were “terrupted by a period in the Forces, but he returned to the University in 1947. He was a SJ of the University Liberal Committee, ad h l id hilf i h y , I y °49» and has also interested himself in the university Liberal Club and the Union of university Liberal Societies.
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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 : Birmingham Yardley
CANDIDATE : Ritchie
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. S. Ritchie is 58 and was apprenticed to a firm of engravers in the City of London, later working in Manchester. Moving to Bournemouth, he was employed at a royal ordnance factory in Dorset during the war. Alter being associated with the Labour Party tor a time, he rejoined the Liberals on moving to Southampton, where he has done much public speaking.
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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 : Bolton East
CANDIDATE : Holt
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. F. Holt, a native of Bolton, was born in 1914, educated at Mill Hill School and Manchester Technical College. With his two brothers he has built up in Bolton an industry new to the town. A territorial in 1939, he later became a company commander and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.
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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 : Bradford East
CANDIDATE : McLeavy
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. McLeavy was elected for East Bradford in 1945. He is 51, and was formerly a road transport inspector in Birkenhead. A member of the T. and G.W.U. for many years, he was the first Labour mayor of Bebington, where he lives. He is also a county alderman of Cheshire. He was a member of Party delegations to China in 1947 and Norway 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 : Brighton Kemptown
CANDIDATE : Johnson
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. S. Johnson is 38, and a solicitor. A pre-war Territorial, he served in Africa in the war and was invalided out as a major. He was a member of Brighton Town Council from 1945 until last May, when he retired. Educated at Brighton and Highgate, he has spent most of his life in the town. He is also a director of 14 land and estate development companies
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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 : Bristol South
CANDIDATE : Maydon
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lt.-Cmdr. S. C. L. Maydon is 36 and was born in South Africa and educated at the Dartmouth Royal Naval College. After 21 years’ service in the Navy he was appointed to the Royal Naval Staff College. He holds the D.S.O. (and bar) and D.S.C., and lives at Wraxall, near Bristol.
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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 : Bury and Radcliffe
CANDIDATE : Fletcher
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr.Walter Fletcher, aged 57, who first entered Parliament in 1945, is an expert on rubber and Far Eastern affairs, being chairman and managing director of a firm of rubber merchants, and past chairman of the Rubber Trade Association. He was reputed to be the heaviest man in the last House of Commons, turning the scale at 19 stone. He has a farm in Hertfordshire, and, as an artist, has exhibited at the Royal Academy. For special service in the Far East in 1939-46 he was made a C.B.E.
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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 : Coventry East
CANDIDATE : Crossman
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. H. S. Crossman who failed in the West Birmingham by-election in 1937, was born in 1907, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. He turned to lecturing in preference to following his father, a High Court Judge, into the legal profession. He organized psychological warfare against Germany and was one of the B.B.C.’s leading speakers in German. A member of General Eisenhower’s Anglo-American propaganda team in North Africa, he later joined Shaef in a similar capacity. He has been assistant editor of the New Statesman and Nation since 1945. He entered Parliament in 1945.
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