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 : South Shields

CANDIDATE : Chalmers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Chalmers, a dental surgeon in South Shields, was born in 1898. As secretary of the Northern Counties branch, British Dental Association, he took a prominent part in the negotiations with the Minister of Health on the Health Act.

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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 : Stoke-on-Trent South

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ellis Smith sat for Stoke from 1935. In the early part of the last Parliament he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade when Sir Stafford Cripps was the President, but resigned for personal reasons. Born at Eccles and now aged 53, he was first employed as a pattern worker, served in the first world war, and afterwards entered the trade union movement, being for 10 years secretary of the Eccles Trades and Labour Council and for 20 years president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Trades 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 : Swindon

CANDIDATE : Tritton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir G. Tritton, who lives at Highworth, near Swindon, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, became a Conservative in 1931, and was for a time before the war prospective Conservative candidate for W. Willesden. Both his father and father-in-law are former Conservative M.P.s. As a major in the Territorials he served with the Rifle Brigade in the war and gained several decorations.

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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 : Wakefield

CANDIDATE : Greenwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Arthur Greenwood, who was born in 1880, is honorary treasurer of the Labour Party. In the first Labour Government in 1924 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, and in the 1929-31 Government he was Minister of Health. At the 1931 General Election he lost his seat at Nelson and Colne, but returned to 1he House the following year as Member for Wakefield. He was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party before the war. When Mr. Churchill for?ed his wartime Government in 1940, Mr. Greenwood became a member of the War Cabinet, but in 1942 he resigned. On Labour coming into power in 1945 he was appointed Lord Privy Seal. He became Paymaster-General in 1946 and was Minister without Portfolio from April to October, 1947.

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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 : Walthamstow West

CANDIDATE : Pim

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Wg. Cdr. A. W. Pim, a stockbroker, was educated at Lancing and served with the R.A.F. in France, West Africa, and Burma. He is a member of Chatham House, chairman of the St. George’s Boys’ Club, Westminster, and of the Westminster Family Welfare Association, and an honorary steward of Westminster Abbey.

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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 : Wembley South

CANDIDATE : Barton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Barton won the new constituency of South Wembley in 1945. Born in 1922 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, he lives in Wembley and was the first Labour mayor of the borough in 1942-43. He has served on the council for 15 years, and has been a member of the Railway Clerks’ Association since 1912.

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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 : Wigan

CANDIDATE : Rowlandson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Rowlandson is 38, a native of Wigan, and secretary of the Manchester and Salford Communist Party, and has also served as chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire district in the party organization. An engineering draughtsman, in 1944 he was preside?t of the Union of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen.

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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 : Wolverhampton South West

CANDIDATE : Rollason

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. F. H. Rollason is a schoolmaster and lives at Quinton, Birmingham. He studied at Birmingham University and Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts. He is a past president of Rowley Regis Teachers’ Association and treasurer of the Oldbury and Halesowen Liberal Association. During the war he served as a major with the Royal Artillery.

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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 : York

CANDIDATE : Clay

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Clay is a secretary-accountant in Hull. When living in Leeds he was secretary of a Liberal association, and when he moved to Hull in 1945 became honorary agent to the Liberal candidate in N.W. Hull. He has been chairman of N.W. Hull Liberal Association and president of Hull 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 : Newbury

CANDIDATE : Jackson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Jackson is 27 and lives in London. Educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School, he served during the war in India, the Middle East, Italy, and Germany, and has since studied law at Oxford and taken a degree in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, he was secretary of the Labour Club, treasurer of the Union, and secretary of the University Law Society. A member of the Oxford University debating team which toured South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya, he also led a British team to India, Pakistan, and Ceylon under the British Council, and has just returned from a debating tour for the English Speaking Union in the United States and Canada.

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