CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Springburn
CANDIDATE : Horne
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. Horne, one of the most active Communists in Scotland, is propaganda secretary of the Party’s Scottish committee. He has contested both Parliamentary and municipal elections in Glasgow.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs
CANDIDATE : MacPherson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. M. MacPherson won the seat in a by-election in October, 1948, which followed the death in a motor-car accident of Mr. J. Westwood, Secretary of State for Scotland. In 1945 he had unsuccessfully contested Yeovil. Born in 1904, eldest son of a keeper of the Bass Rock lighthouse, he was Dux scholar at Trinity Academy, Leith, and graduated at Edinburgh University. For 10 years a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick, he later joined the staff of University College, Exeter. He served with the Canadian Army in the last war, rising to the rank of major.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Argyll
CANDIDATE : Nicholson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. I. Nicholson, who is 20 and the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Glasgow, and spent some years in South Africa. He is a student at Glasgow University reading economics.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banffshire
CANDIDATE : Brown
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Brown is the 22-year-old grandson of the late Mr. James Brown, for many years member for South Ayrshire and three times Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He holds a teaching appointment at Forres Academy.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fife East
CANDIDATE : McLaren
PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. McLaren, a patternmaker, aged 45, is Scottish area organizer of the United Patternmakers’ Association; and has been a member of its executive. He has had considerable experience in local government in Greenock, and is a member of the Western Regional Hospital Board.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bothwell
CANDIDATE : Timmons
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Timmons, born in 1891, had an elementary and technical education and worked in the pits before he was 13. For 20 years he was a checkweighman, and for 30 years branch secretary of the miners’ union. For many years he served on the executive of the Scottish area of the mine-workers’ union, on the Lanark County Council, on the panel of referees for the Ministry of Labour, and on the advisory committee to the Assistance Board.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Midlothian and Peeblesshire
CANDIDATE : Pryde
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. J. Pryde was born in 1890 and worked as a miner until 1933, when he took up full-time union activities. He served for many years on the Mid and West Lothian Miners’ Delegate Board, and for 10 years represented Lo?hian miners on the executive of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers. A member of the Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Town Council, he resigned from that body in 1945 when he won the former Peebles and Southern Midlothian constituency from the Conservatives.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Renfrewshire East
CANDIDATE : Taylor
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. L. Taylor, a solicitor and notary public, was born in 1916. He was at Glasgow University, and is a partner in a Glasgow firm of solicitors. He was at one time chairman of the Glasgow Federation of the I.L.P. and a member of the Scottish Executive of the I.L.P., and joined the Labour Party in 1947. He is also a former member of the Glasgow Trades Council and the clerks’ union.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Battersea South
CANDIDATE : Partridge
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. Partridge, son of a Camberwell doctor, was educated at Wilson’s Grammar School, and is 55 years of age. Originally trained in accountancy, his principal interests are now in iron and steel, and he is a director of a Wolverhampton firm. He was for six years on Hoi born Borough Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chelsea
CANDIDATE : Noble
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Cmdr. A. H. P. Noble, who became member for Chelsea in 1945, was born in 1908, elder son of Admiral Sir Percy Noble. He commanded destroyers during the war, and also served in the Admiralty and attended the Quebec and Yalta conferences. He was one of the two Parliamentary observers at the Bikini atom bomb tests.< He was joint secretary of the 1922 Committee of Conservative back-benchers, and secretary of the London Members' Committee in the last Parliament.
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