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 : Uxbridge

CANDIDATE : Thorne

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. C. B. Thorne, aged 53, served as a regular officer in the Dragoon Guards for many years and is the author of a history of the second world war. A director and general secretary of the Institute of Production Engineers, he has a special knowledge of industrial problems.

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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 : Norfolk South West

CANDIDATE : Dennis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. G. S. Dennis, educated at Weymouth and Cambridge, is lord of the manor of Broad-mayne, Dorset, and farmed in the west before the war, in which he was wounded while serving with the Roj al Tank Corps. He is an expert on crop diseases and a keen rider to hounds, and has won many cups in point-to-point races, and in the show ring. As a cricketer he has played for the British Empire XI and Hampshire.

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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 : Wellingborough

CANDIDATE : Sayer

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Sayer, who contested Bromley as a Liberal in 1945, was born in 1917. He was educated at Bryanston and Stowe College, and left at 17 to travel round the world. On returning in 1936 he entered journalism. He joined the Middlesex Yeomanry on the outbreak of war, served in the Western Desert, the Middle East, and Germany, and left the Army at 28 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

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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 : Mansfield

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. B. Taylor, a miners’ official, was elected at a by-election in 1941 and returned in 1945. He is 55. In January, 1947, he unveiled the nationalization plaque at Sherwood Colliery, where he had started work at the age of 14 and eventually became a checkweighman. He has been vice-president of the Notts Miners’ Federation. From 1945 to the dissolution he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of National Insurance.

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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 : Ludlow

CANDIDATE : Corbett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col,. Uvedale Cor- ft bett, elected for Ludlow in 1945 with a majority of 7,570, is a member of an old Shropshire family and a successful farmer. Born in 1909 and educated at Wellington and Woolwich, he became a Regular Army officer and during the war commanded a.regiment of the 7th Armoured Division.

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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 : Taunton

CANDIDATE : Collins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Victor Collins won the seat in 1945. Born in 1903, and educated in London, he entered the family business of basket makers, and is chairman of the National Basket and Willow Trades Advisory Committee. He has been president of the employers’ federation of Cane and Willow Workers’ Associations since 1932, and president of the National Willow Growers’ Association since 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 : Cannock

CANDIDATE : Lee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Jennie Lee was born in 1904 and is the daughter of a miner. She won scholarships to Edinburgh University, became a teacher, and later a journalist. She is joint editor of the Tribune, which before 1945 was edited by her husband, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health. Miss Lee first sat in Parliament from 1929 to 1931 for North Lanark, and returned in 1945 for Cannock.

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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 : Lowestoft

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Edward Evans, who was born in Manchester in 1883, won the seat in 1945. A teacher, he was educated at Cheltenham and London University, and was head master of the East Anglian Schools for the Blind from 1928 to 1943, when he became deputy secretary of the National Institute for the Blind. He is the founder and chairman of the College of Teachers of the Blind and chairman of a Ministry of Health advisory committee on handicapped persons. His book, ” A Manual Alphabet for the Deaf Blind,” is a standard work. He has served on Yarmouth Town 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 : Surrey East

CANDIDATE : Astor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Michael Astor entered Parliament in 1945, when he successfully held the old Eastern Division for the Conservative Party. He is the third son of Viscount Astor. He was born in 1916 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He saw much fighting in Europe during the last war. Chairman of the Playing Fields Association grants committee, he is also a vice-president of the Anglo-Netherlands Sports 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 : Reigate

CANDIDATE : Batham

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. S. Batham was born in 1917, and in 1934 joined the staff of a firm at Gerrards Cross as an office boy. Twelve years later he became a director. During the war he served in the R.N.V.R. He is a member of the Liberal Party’s ” Ownership-for-all ” Committee, and a leading figure on the executive of the Home Counties Liberal Federation. He has travelled in Brazil, where he has family and business connexions.

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