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 : Birkenhead

CANDIDATE : Collick

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. H. Collick, born in 1897, was a footplate man on the old L. and S.W. Railway. He became assistant general secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers in 1939. Elected to Parliament in 1945 for West Birken-head, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture until 1947, when he resigned for health reasons.

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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 : Birmingham Handsworth

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Roberts, who first entered Parliament in 1945, is a solicitor with a long record of public service in Birmingham. He was Lord Mayor in 1936. During his term of office he launched the final appeal which realized £250,000 and made possible the completion of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He is a life governor of Birmingham 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 : Birmingham Small Heath

CANDIDATE : Pagett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Pagett, a native of Stourbridge, aged 63, came to Birmingham when he was 15 years of age as an apprentice to the retail grocery trade. He was at one time president of the National Association of Grocers’ Assistants, a forerunner of the National Shop Assistants’ Union. He subsequently became a retail grocer, and staunchly champions the individual trader and the ” little man ” in business. He is a member of the Birmingham City 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 : Blackburn West

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Edwards, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the last Parliament, became an M.P. in 1945, his third attempt, when he won Blackburn from the Conservatives. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health before his appointment to the Board of Trade. He is 45 years of age, and is a B.A. with honours in economics and political science, of Leeds University. In 1938 he was appointed general secretary of the G.P.O. Engineering Union.

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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 : Bootle

CANDIDATE : McGinnity

PARTY : Irish Anti-Partitionist

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. McGinnity was born at Newry, Northern Ireland, in 1896, and worked on the land. Moving to Liverpool in 1924, he began work at the docks, where he has remained. A pioneer of the Anti-Partition League in Britain, he is chairman of the Scotland (Liverpool) branch.

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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 : Bradford North

CANDIDATE : Kitching

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Kitching, international Rugby League centre-threequarter of the Bradford Northern club, was born in Bradford in 1921 and educated for the teaching profession. He •S geography and physical training master at Pudsey Grammar School. He toured Australia .and New Zealand with the British Rugby League team in 1946.

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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 : Bristol Central

CANDIDATE : Awbery

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. S. Awbery was born in 1888 and?trained as a copper worker. Later he held union appointments and became an organizer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. A member of the Labour Party since 1910, he has been active in local government in Barry and was mayor in 1942. He was elected in 1945 and Went to Malaya with a Parliamentary delegation in 1948. He advocates an alliance of the Labour Party, trade unions and Cooperative movement.

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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 : Bristol West

CANDIDATE : Stanley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Oliver Stanley 1 was first elected to Parliament for Westmorland in 1924 and held the seat until 1945, when he was returned for Bristol West. His first Ministerial office was that of Under- j Secretary to the Home Office, 1931-33, and he was successively Minister I of Transport, Labour, i Education, and President ‘ of the Board of Trade. In 1940 he was for a time Secretary of State for War, and from 1942 to 1945 Colonial Secretary. He was born in 1896, son of the 17th Earl of Derby, and went to Eton and Oxford. After service in the first war he was called to the Bar, 1919, Northern Circuit, but gave up practice to become a stockbroker.

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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 : Carlisle

CANDIDATE : Iredell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. W. Iredell contested the seat in 1945. Aged 33, he is the son of a Keswick bank manager. He was educated at St. Bees and Cambridge. A solicitor, he is a lecturer at the Law Society’s College, London.

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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 : Coventry North

CANDIDATE : Burns

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Burns, a company director and builder and estate developer, is a technical adviser to the Ministry of Works in London.

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