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 : Harborough

CANDIDATE : Symington

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. H. Symington, farmer and company director, aged 46, was educated at Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge. He has been a member of Market Harborough U.D.C. since 1946. Twelve years ago he crossed the Sahara Desert on a motor-cycle. In December, 1949, he published a seven-point policy, which included the abolition of P.A.Y.E.

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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 : Brigg

CANDIDATE : Staniland

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. F. Staniland, aged 35, is a native of Boston, where his father and grandfather were successively town clerk, and which his grandfather represented in Parliament as a Liberal M.P. Educated at Rugby and Cambridge, he served in the war with The Lincolnshire Regiment, being wounded in Italy and gaining the M.C. He is a director of a London publishing company, and the author of a satire on Socialism, ” Back to the Future.”

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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 : Norfolk Central

CANDIDATE : Medlicott

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. F. Medlicott was first elected to Parliament as member for East Norfolk in 1919 as a Liberal National. He was a Territorial lance-bombardier in the Royal Artillery when called up in 1939, and rose to become a Brigadier in 21st Army Group. He was born in 1903 in Taunton, and articled to a local solicitor. He now practises in 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 : Yarmouth

CANDIDATE : Baker

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. C. Baker, born in 1892, gained his cricket blue at Cambridge and occasionally played for Sussex some years ago. After service in the 1914-18 war he became a staff captain at the Army School of Instruction, Shorncliffe, and later took an appointment in Malaya. After the second world war, in which he was an Army instmctor, he was a senior history master at Bedford School for two years before returning to Cambridge to join the extra-mural board.

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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 : Berwick-upon-Tweed

CANDIDATE : Carr

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir A. Comyns Carr, K.C., who was M.P. for East Islington, 1923-24, was British prosecutor at the Tokyo war guilt trials and recently prosecuted von Manstein. Born in 1882 and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1908, and took silk in 1924. He is part author of books on national insurance, mining legislation, and world currency.

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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 : Mansfield

CANDIDATE : Robinson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. H. P. Robinson, born in Bradford, is 41 and lives at Mansfield. A chemist, he is chief pharmacist to Mansfield Hospital. He is secretary and former chairman of the local Liberal Association. At one time he was an amateur boxer.

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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 : Oswestry

CANDIDATE : Ormsby-Gore

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. D. Ormsby-Gore, son and heir of Lord Harlech, aged 31, was educated at Eton and Oxford. A few years ago his father announced that he had handed over to his heir ownership of all his lands. Mr. Ormsby-Gore farms 400 acres at his Woodhill Estate, Oswestry. In the war he served in the “Phantom” reconnaissance unit and worked with airborne and other special units.

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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 : Wells

CANDIDATE : Boles

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. D. C. Boles became member for Wells in 1939, when he was returned unopposed. Born in 1885 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he served with the 17th Lancers throughout the 1914-18 war and afterwards commanded the Royal Horse Guards. While at Eton he scored 183 in the Eton-Harrow cricket match in 1904.

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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 : Leek

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Harold Davies was born in South Wales in 1904, won scholarships to a grammar school and the University of Wales, and became a teacher. For 13 years before his election for Leek in 1945 he was a lecturer in adult education. At Westminster he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Group of the Labour Party, and was also interested in agriculture and coal, as well as the social services. He has travelled in Europe, the United States, and the Far East.

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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 : Lowestoft

CANDIDATE : English

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss R. C. English is the daughter of a surgeon, Sir Crisp English, and was a nurse at Bart’s during the war before going to the War Office Intelligence Department. She was one of the founders of the Heckford Society in Shad-well and Limehouse, and is a governor of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Shad-well. She is the hon. secretary of the Westminster Liberal Party and an executive member of the London Liberal Party.

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