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 : Warrington

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. H. B. Morgan, a specialist in industrial diseases, is Medical Adviser to the T.U.C. and several trade unions. He has practised in southeast London, and served on Greenwich and Pad-dington councils. He was M.P. for N.W. Camber-well, 1929-31, and was returned in 1940 for Rochdale, which he represented until this election. Born in 1885 he was educated in the West Indies and Glasgow 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 : Wembley South

CANDIDATE : Gill

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Gill, aged 28, is a toolmaker employed at Wembley and living at Hanwell. He is a member of the local A.E.U. committee and a shop steward.

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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 : Willesden East

CANDIDATE : Hammersley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. S. Hammersley, chairman of a Lancashire cotton-spinning firm, is 57, and was M.P. for Stockport, 1924-35. He did not seek re-election, for business reasons, but was returned for E. Willesden in the 1938 by-election, and defeated in 1945. He was wounded in Gallipoli in the 1914-18 war.

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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 : Woodford

CANDIDATE : Hills

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Hills (37) is a printer who for the past three years has been studying at Oxford University, and while there was vice-chairman of the Oxford City Labour Party, president of the Oxford Union Society, and chairman of the Oxford University Labour Party group. He was in the Army during the war, and attained the rank of captain.

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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 : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Skeffington-Lodge

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Bedfordshire’s first Labour member, is the son of a farmer and jointly owns with his sister a 2,000-acre farm in Yorkshire. A bachelor, aged 45, he was chairman of the divisional Labour Party at Pudsey and Otley. He took the lead in forming a group of the Socialist Christian League in the House of Commons.

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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 : Windsor

CANDIDATE : Mott-Radclyffe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. E. Mott-Radclyffe became M.P. for Windsor at a by-election in 1945, has been a Conservative Whip, and is joint secretary of the Conservative Party Foreign Affairs Committee. An alternative delegate to the Council of Europe, he took part in the conference at Strasbourg on social security. Born in 1911 and educated at Eton and Oxford, he was for a time in the diplomatic service, and during the war, in which he served with The Rifle Brigade, he was on the staff in Greece and Syria.

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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 : Wycombe

CANDIDATE : Astor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. W. Astor won East Fulham in 1935 and represented the constituency in Parliament until 1945. The eldest son of Viscount Astor, he was born in 1907, and on leaving Oxford travelled in the Far East for the Institute of Pacific Relations, worked with the Pilgrim Trust, and was secretary to Lord Lytton when the commission of inquiry on Manchuria visited China. He joined the R.N.V.R.. in 1938 and served in the Middle East. He is keenly interested in agriculture, and farms in Buckinghamshire.

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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 : Knutsford

CANDIDATE : Maitland

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. L. Maitland, a bachelor aged 41, is an engineer who lives in Scotland. He is a director of a firm with offices in Glasgow and London. He was educated at Ackworth School and Sheffield University. He served on the Liberal Party’s Reconstruction 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 : Wirral

CANDIDATE : Banks

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. M. Banks was born in 1915, went to Geneva as university delegate for research at the I.L.O., and, returning to Cambridge, read international law. Called to the Bar in 1936, he practised on the Northern Circuit and at the Central Criminal Court. He served over five yc;ars in the Army, and is a former chairman of Hoylake 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 : Penrith and The Border

CANDIDATE : Scott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. D. Scott is a B.A. in Agriculture of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a farmer. Born in 1901, he was M.P. for the Wansbeck division of Northumberland from 1940 to 1945, and for a time was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and chairman of the advisory committee on hill farming. For 10 years he was a member of the Rothbury Rural District Council, and has been chairman of his local branch of the National Farmers’ Union.

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