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 : Bristol North East

CANDIDATE : Woodcock

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss I. Woodcock, daughter of a retired county court judge, was born in 1895 and educated at Frognal School, Hampstead, and Paris. She is chairman of the Women’s Institute Markets, Limited, for Gloucestershire, and a voluntary county organizer for the W.I. movement. A past president of Cheltenham Liberal Association and of the Women’s Liberal Association.

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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 : Bromley

CANDIDATE : Grafton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. W. Grafton, born in 1917, is a twin frn™^?ars a beard to distinguish himself ™Hm h!s brother. He is a chartered surveyor 11 a j n Rust>y player. He broke his leg arm6 ays before the election date was „,nounced and conducted his campaign on and t • Saw war service in India, Ceylon, thi ,iava and with the expeditionary force to the Cocos Islands.

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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 : Cheltenham

CANDIDATE : Lipson

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. L. Lipson was M.P. for Cheltenham from 1937 until the dissolution. He is a former master of Cheltenham College and afterwards was in charge of a private school. He was born in 1886, and was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Sheffield, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. From 1935 to 1937 he was mayor of Cheltenham, and is an alderman of the town and of Gloucestershire County 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 : Crosby

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Lewis contested Rugby in 1945. Aged 40, and a railwayman, he lives near Mansfield, and is a member of Derbyshire County Council and chairman of the governors of Shirebrook Grammar School. He has been a Methodist preacher for 23 years. He served in the Middle East with the R.A.S.C. in the 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 : Darlington

CANDIDATE : Hardman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Hardman, appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education in October, 1945, is aged 48. At Cambridge he held various offices in the University Union and Labour Federation. For 20 years before entering Parliament he was engaged in adult education, and was secretary of Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board. He is a member of Cambridge borough and county councils. He has led delegations to various Unesco conferences.

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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 : Doncaster

CANDIDATE : Barber

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. P. L. Barber, son of the secretary-director of a Doncaster works, is 29. He went to France in 1939 with a Doncaster Territorial unit and was at Dunkirk. Later, he was a pilot in the R.A.F. and was captured by the Germans. He was mentioned in dispatches for his part in escapes from the prison camp, and while a prisoner took a law degree with first-class honours through the International Red Cross. Awarded a State grant to Oxford and an Inner Temple scholarship, he is practising as a barrister.

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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 : East Ham South

CANDIDATE : Barnes

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Alfred Barnes has represented the constituency since 1922, except for one break in 1931-35. Born in I887, he was first an artist in gold and silver. He was the first president of the London – Co-operative Society and held the office nine years, and has been chairman of the Cooperative Party for 21 years. A former Labour Whip and junior Lord of the Treasury, he became Minister of Transport in 1945.

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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 : Enfield West

CANDIDATE : Campbell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. P. Campbell, a Fellow of the Spectacle Makers’ Company, is a sales director and works council chairman at an Enfield optical nnn. He served in the Army in both world wars. In the first he won the Military Medal while serving with the London Division, and ‘n the second was with the Royal Artillery and then with the R.A.S.C. He served in Normandy, Belgium and Germany.

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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 : Gillingham

CANDIDATE : Binns

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Binns, born in 1900, received an elementary and secondary education, and became efficiency engineer, Manchester Corporation electricity department. Afterwards he was chief assistant engineer, I.C.I., and secretary of the I.C.I, engineering committee. He was elected to Greenwich Borough Council, 1932, and became leader of the council, ‘ “43 ; also a member of Metropolitan Borough Standing Joint Committee and a Commissioner of the Public Works Loan Board. In the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Wilmot when Minister of Supply.

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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 : Harrow East

CANDIDATE : Harvey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Harvey, a former president of the Oxford Union is 34. He won a history exhibition and a Kitchener scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, from Fettes College, Edinburgh, in 1933. He is secretary of the Oxford University Graduates’ Conservative Association. During the war he saw service as brigade major with an anti-aircraft brigade, and now commands the 566 L.A.A. Regiment, R.A. (City of London Rifles), T.A. He is in business as an advertising agent.

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