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 : Portsmouth South

CANDIDATE : Lucas

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Jocelyn Lucas has represented the division since 1939. Born in 1889, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. In the 1914-18 war he was wounded and taken prisoner, and was twice wounded in the second world war, in which he acted as liaison officer (welfare) with the Dominion forces. He was chairman of the Welcome Committee of the Overseas League from 1938 to 1949, founder and chairman of the Returned Prisoners of War Advice Committee, and founder and chairman of the Allies Welcome Committee.

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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 : Reading North

CANDIDATE : Derrick

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Derrick, aged 34, a journalist, was educated at Douai Abbey School and at Oxford. During the war he raised the Local Defence Volunteers at Cold Ash, Berkshire, where he lives, and wrote scripts for the B.B.C. European service.

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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 : Rossendale

CANDIDATE : Backhouse

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. M. Backhouse, a barrister on the Northern Circuit, is 46, and a member of a well-known Lancashire family of lawyers. During the war he was a colonel in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, was later on the D Day invasion planning staff, and was also chief prosecutor at the Belsen trials.

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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 : Salford East

CANDIDATE : Needoff

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Needoff was born in Manchester in 1907. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University, and was northern universities’ boxing champion and general athlete. Joining the family firm of clothing manufacturers, he is a director. He was a member of Manchester City Council for four years to 1945. He is a keen worker for Jewish youth organizations.

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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 : Sheffield Hillsborough

CANDIDATE : Edge

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Knowles Edge is the son of Sir William Edge, who sat in Parliament for 30 years up to 1945. Sir Knowles was born in 1905, was trained as an industrial chemist, and is now a managing director and has interests in engineering and manufacturing pharmacy. A member of Bolton Town Council for 18 years, he has, for many years, been the secretary of the National Liberal organization in the North-West.

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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 : Southampton Test

CANDIDATE : King

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. M. King, aged 48, is chairman of the Southampton Labour Party. He was educated at King’s College, London, and is a doctor of philosophy. He joined Southampton education service in 1921 and became a head master and later a member of the education committee. A keen musician, he organized many concerts for the services.

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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 : South Shields

CANDIDATE : Chalmers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Chalmers, a dental surgeon in South Shields, was born in 1898. As secretary of the Northern Counties branch, British Dental Association, he took a prominent part in the negotiations with the Minister of Health on the Health Act.

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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 : Stoke-on-Trent South

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ellis Smith sat for Stoke from 1935. In the early part of the last Parliament he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade when Sir Stafford Cripps was the President, but resigned for personal reasons. Born at Eccles and now aged 53, he was first employed as a pattern worker, served in the first world war, and afterwards entered the trade union movement, being for 10 years secretary of the Eccles Trades and Labour Council and for 20 years president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Trades 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 : Swindon

CANDIDATE : Tritton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir G. Tritton, who lives at Highworth, near Swindon, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, became a Conservative in 1931, and was for a time before the war prospective Conservative candidate for W. Willesden. Both his father and father-in-law are former Conservative M.P.s. As a major in the Territorials he served with the Rifle Brigade in the war and gained several decorations.

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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 : Wakefield

CANDIDATE : Greenwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Arthur Greenwood, who was born in 1880, is honorary treasurer of the Labour Party. In the first Labour Government in 1924 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, and in the 1929-31 Government he was Minister of Health. At the 1931 General Election he lost his seat at Nelson and Colne, but returned to 1he House the following year as Member for Wakefield. He was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party before the war. When Mr. Churchill for?ed his wartime Government in 1940, Mr. Greenwood became a member of the War Cabinet, but in 1942 he resigned. On Labour coming into power in 1945 he was appointed Lord Privy Seal. He became Paymaster-General in 1946 and was Minister without Portfolio from April to October, 1947.

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