CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : High Peak
CANDIDATE : Halsall
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. McC. Halsall was born at South-port in 1906 and educated at ?erchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, Lancashire. He is a manager with a firm of calico manufacturers. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.
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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 : Devon North
CANDIDATE : Peto
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Brig. C. H. M. Peto comes of a family with many Parliamentary associations, his father, grandfather, and brother having been members. He entered Parliament for the old Barnstaple division in 1945. Educated at Harrow, he was commissioned as a Regular Army officer in 1918 and saw much service in the last war, becoming chief liaison officer to the allied contingents on Field-Marshal Montgomery’s staff. He has been chairman of the Conservative Party Disability Pensions Committee. In the last Parliament he introduced a Bill for the protection of animals from cruelty.
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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 : Dorset North
CANDIDATE : Crouch
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. F. Crouch is a farmer and comes from a farming family which has been connected with North Dorset for 300 years. He has been a member of the county executive of the Wilts and Dorset branch of the National Farmers’ Union. From 1939, he was a member of the Machinery Committee of the Wilts War Agricultural Executive Committee, and introduced mechanical corn growing to Wiltshire.
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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 : Consett
CANDIDATE : Glanville
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. E. Glanville has represented Consett since 1943. Born in 1891, he received an elementary education and worked in the mines. He was president of a miners’ lodge for 25 years, and a member of the executive of Durham Miners’ Association. He joined the Labour Party in 1906, and lives at Stanley, Co. Durham.
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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 : Isle of Ely
CANDIDATE : Legge-Bourke
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Maj. E. A. H. Legge-Bourke, a Regular officer educated at Eton and Sandhurst, served through the war and was released in 1945 when he won this constituency from the Liberal member, Mr. James de Rothschild. He has served on several Parliamentary committees and is interested in land drainage, being vice-president of the Association of Drainage Authorities.
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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 : Harwich
CANDIDATE : Train
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. Train, aged 53, has been actively associated with the Liberal Party for more than 30 years, and is chairman of the Essex County Liberal Association and on the executive of the Home Counties Liberal Federation. He served with the K.R.R.C. during the war.
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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 : Gloucestershire South
CANDIDATE : Davidson
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. B. Davidson is a solicitor, and business manager of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, and was formerly with the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Aged 38, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. He is a former president of the Oxford University Conservative Association, and of the Oxford Union. He served on the Conservative Party policy committee on reforms in the administration of justice.
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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 : Petersfield
CANDIDATE : Jeffreys
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir George Jeffreys has represented the division since 1941. Aged 71, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and saw 41 years’ service in the Army. He was mentioned in dispatches nine times in the first war, and holds many foreign decorations. He is Deputy Lieutenant and a county alderman of Hampshire, and has been a member of the county council since 1926; is chairman of the Hampshire T.A. Association.
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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 : Hemel Hempstead
CANDIDATE : Stevens
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. A. Stevens is 35, a bachelor, and public relations officer to a group of light metal companies. He was on Lord Beaverbrook’s staff at the Ministry of Aircraft Production during the war, in which he later served in the Royal Corps of Signals, being demobilized as a major in 1947.
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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 : Ashford
CANDIDATE : Deedes
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. F. Deedes, born in 1913 in East Kent where his family has been established as farmers in the Romney Marsh district for 450 years, was educated at Harrow, and is a Fleet Street journalist and served as a war correspondent in Abyssinia in 1935. He joined the Queen’s Westminsters and served during the war in north-west Europe. He was awarded the M.C. He lives near Ashford, and his grandfather and great-grandfather represented the division, then known as East Kent, as Conservative M.P.s.
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