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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackpool North Constituency – Biography of Low

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackpool North Constituency – Biography of Low

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackpool North

    CANDIDATE : Low

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. R. W. Low represented North Blackpool in the last Parliament. He is 35 years of age and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1939. During the war he saw service in Greece, Crete, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Italy and Austria and finished his service with the rank of brigadier. He is a member of the board of a banking company, following his father and grandfather into the firm.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth East and Christchurch Constituency – Biography of Bracken

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth East and Christchurch Constituency – Biography of Bracken

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bournemouth East and Christchurch

    CANDIDATE : Bracken

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Brendan Bracken, who is 49, entered Parliament in 1929 asM.P. for North Paddington. Ten years later he became Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and later as Prime Minister. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1940 and Minister of Information a year later. In May, 1945, he went to the Admiralty as First Lord, but lost his seat in the election that year. In the following November he was elected for Bournemouth at a by-election. A director of Eyre and Spottiswoode for many years; he is chairman of the Union Corporation and of the Financial Times.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bradford South Constituency – Biography of Craddock

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bradford South Constituency – Biography of Craddock

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford South

    CANDIDATE : Craddock

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Craddock sat in Parliament for three gays as representative of ^outh Bradford. He won a three-cornered fight in f. by-election, but Par-“ament rose two days alter he took his seat «>d was later dissolved. “£. .»s a trade union Pmcial in Sheffield. Born in 1898, son of a boot operative, he was for-mer’y a railway clerk.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol Central Constituency – Biography of Peyton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol Central Constituency – Biography of Peyton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol Central

    CANDIDATE : Peyton

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. W. Peyton is 30 and a Londoner, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He held a reserve commission in the 14/15 Hussars, and spent five years in a German pnson camp. Called to the Bar in 1945, he later visited India, twice with Sir Walter Monckton, constitutional adviser to the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was married in 1947 and lives in Bristol.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol West Constituency – Biography of Bishop

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol West Constituency – Biography of Bishop

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol West

    CANDIDATE : Bishop

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. S. D. Bishop, aged 28, had a secondary school education and took Bristol University extra-mural studies in economics. He is a draughtsman with an aeronautical company. He has been a Bristol City Councillor since 1946. He is a keen Church worker and interested in youth movements, and a member of Bristol executive council of the National Health Service.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlisle Constituency – Biography of Hargreaves

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlisle Constituency – Biography of Hargreaves

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlisle

    CANDIDATE : Hargreaves

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Hargreaves is an official of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He was hon. secretary of West Derby (Liverpool) Labour Party in 1926, and president of Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party in 1945. Since 1928 he has been on the city council, and he is a member of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board as the nominee of the Ministry of Transport. He is active in the W.E.A. movement, and on the Liverpool Council of Social Service.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry South Constituency – Biography of Burton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry South Constituency – Biography of Burton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Coventry South

    CANDIDATE : Burton

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss E. Burton, born in 1904, taught in Leeds for 11 years and afterwards worked for the South Wales Council of Social Service. She organized keep – fit schemes and swimming in various London centres. She is a founder member of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dagenham Constituency – Biography of Parker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dagenham Constituency – Biography of Parker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dagenham

    CANDIDATE : Parker

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Parker, aged 43, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Dominions Office in 1945-46, and has been a Member of Parliament since 1935. He has been vice-chairman of the Fabian Society since 1946, and a member of the Labour Party executive. In 1945 he was a member of a Parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union, and he has been a member of the Transport and General Workers’ Union Group in the House of Commons. He served at one time as Parliamentary private secretary to Miss Ellen Wilkinson at the Ministry of Home Security.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dewsbury Constituency – Biography of Paling

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dewsbury Constituency – Biography of Paling

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dewsbury

    CANDIDATE : Paling

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Will T. Paling, brother of the former postmaster-General, is •>?>> and began work in a coalmine. After attend-un n evening classes in ^.iy he won a scholar-^n’P to the Central Labour College, London, where he trained as a lecturer in economics, industrial history and sociology. In 1924 he mf V,0, the Yorkshire “iinetield, whence he became a check weigh-™an and active in the Miners’ Association. Co W ia member °f West Riding County Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ealing South Constituency – Biography of Corn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ealing South Constituency – Biography of Corn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ealing South

    CANDIDATE : Corn

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss B. Corn lives in Barking and is employed m the offices of Holborn Borough Council. Assistant secretary of the National League of Young Liberals, 1943-45, she restarted the Home Counties Young Liberals federation in 1945, acting as secretary. She ls a member of the council of the Liberal Party.

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