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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southampton Itchen Constituency – Biography of Morley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southampton Itchen Constituency – Biography of Morley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southampton Itchen

    CANDIDATE : Morley

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Morley represented Southampton from 1929 to 1931 and won a seat there again in 1945. Born in 1892, he spent his life in the teaching profession and retired as a head master. He is a past president of the National Union of Teachers, and governor of University College, Southampton (where he was trained), and a member of the Southampton education committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southport Constituency – Biography of Bonney

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southport Constituency – Biography of Bonney

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southport

    CANDIDATE : Bonney

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. P. Bonney, a Southport solicitor and a vice-president of the local Labour Party, was born at Preston in 1909. He served with a Blackpool firm of solicitors, was deputy coroner for South Worcestershire, and after working in Sheffield and Liverpool now practises at Southport.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke-on-Trent Central Constituency – Biography of Hancock

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke-on-Trent Central Constituency – Biography of Hancock

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke-on-Trent Central

    CANDIDATE : Hancock

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Hancock, aged 50, was’chief electric?l engineer of the royal Ordnance factory at *->wynnerton during the war, and is now managing director of a commercial company, formerly a Liberal, he joined the Conservative Party in 1931.% He served many years on Moke-on-Trent City! Council and was made an alderman in^l949.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sutton and Cheam Constituency – Biography of Judd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sutton and Cheam Constituency – Biography of Judd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sutton and Cheam

    CANDIDATE : Judd

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. H. O. Judd, born in 1902, is the daughter of a well-known Scottish missionary (the Rev. F. Ashcroft) and the wife of Mr. C. W. Judd, secretary of the United Nations Association. She graduated with honours at Edinburgh University in 1925 and afterwards was occupied with teaching and other social activities. She is interested in training colonial students in welfare developments in the Colonies.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tynemouth Constituency – Biography of Ward

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tynemouth Constituency – Biography of Ward

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tynemouth

    CANDIDATE : Ward

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss Irene Ward, M.P. for Wallsend 1931-45, entered politics at 24 and twice defeated Miss Margaret Bondfield at Wallsend. In Parliament she gave great attention to the industrial needs of Tyneside, and also promoted a private Bill enabling local authorities to pay pocket money to old people in institutions.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow East Constituency – Biography of Drower

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow East Constituency – Biography of Drower

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow East

    CANDIDATE : Drower

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. I. F. Drower, an insurance surveyor, born in 1916, served in the R.N.V.R. during the war from Iceland to the Pacific and was present at the landings in Normandy. He was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley North Constituency – Biography of Lewis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley North Constituency – Biography of Lewis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wembley North

    CANDIDATE : Lewis

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. Lewis is chairman of Wembley Labour Party and of Kingsbury Co-operative Party. Born in 1908, he has been a member of Wembley Borough Council since 1938, and from 1946 to 1949 was a member of Middlesex County Council. During the war he served with the R.A.O.C. in Sicily and North Africa.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Williams

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Williams

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wigan

    CANDIDATE : Williams

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. W. Williams was returned at a by-election in 1948. He is 42, the son of a South Wales miner, and qualified as a solicitor. Partner in a law firm until 1936, he became solicitor to the Durham Mineworkers’ Union and is now solicitor to the National Union of Mineworkers. He was a member of the commission which inquired into the Nigerian disorders in 1949.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton North East Constituency – Biography of Brown

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton North East Constituency – Biography of Brown

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton North East

    CANDIDATE : Brown

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. A. Brown was born in Leeds, educated in London (where he qualified in medicine) and went to Wolverhampton in 1935. He is a member of a family of doctors. An amateur boxer, he has reached the London University finals and has boxed for both his university and the united hospitals. He is a qualified referee, and a founder member of Wolverhampton Amateur Boxing Club. From 1941 to 1948 he served in the R.A.M.C. with the 14th Army.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worthing Constituency – Biography of Duchin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worthing Constituency – Biography of Duchin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Worthing

    CANDIDATE : Duchin

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Duchin, a solicitor, aged 40, was educated at St. Paul’s School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He was formerly treasurer of the Haldane Society, and is now a member of the Association of Labour Lawyers. At one time he was on Holborn Borough Council. Since 1936 he has assisted in poor man’s lawyer centres at Barking and Westminster, and is hon. solicitor to the Jewish Refugees Committee. He is a specialist on the law relating to aliens.

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