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 : Shoreditch and Finsbury

CANDIDATE : Thurtle

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Thurtle, who sat in Parliament as member for Shoreditch from 1923 to 1931 and since 1935, is a son-in-law of the late Mr. George Lansbury, at one time leader of the Labour Opposition. He was born in New York State in 1884 and became an accountant and salesman. In the first world war he was severely wounded at Cambrai and afterwards became an active champion of ex-service men. He has been a Labour Whip and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information from 1941 to 1945. For some years he has been journalist and author.

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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 : Wandsworth Central

CANDIDATE : Adams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. R. Adams, aged 38, attended the London School of Economics and took a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He has been an advertising and sales executive, and Assistant Commissioner for National Savings. In 1945 he won the Balham and?Tooting division, which disappeared in the redistribution. He was appointed an assistant Government whip in i?47, and a Lord Commissioner of the ireasury in 1949. He served as a tank officer in North Africa and Italy during the fa,r. and later as staff officer, Land Forces, Adriatic.

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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 : Woolwich East

CANDIDATE : Dutt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. P. Dutt, vice-chairman and founder member of the Communist Party in Britain, has played a prominent part in its central leadership since 1922. He is one of the foremost English-speaking exponents of Marxism. He was expelled from Oxford University, where he was a Balliol scholar, in 1917 for international socialist activities. He is a journalist and author.

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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 : Ashton-under-Lyne

CANDIDATE : Howcroft

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. G. B. Howcroft, aged 54, is a practising architect in Oldham, a lecturer on architecture at Manchester University, and a director of a spinning company. An active member of Oldham Borough Council, he is also chairman of the dilapidations committee in the Manchester diocese and a member of the church building and sites committee. Served with the 7th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in 1914-18 and was in command of it at the outbreak of the last war.

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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 : Bebington

CANDIDATE : Oakshott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. D. Oakshott, member of a well-known !°cal family, was born m 1904, and educated at Rugby and at Cam-°ndge, where he took an honours degree in law. fe is a director of a Liverpool timber com-Pfny. After service in we Middle East, North Atnca, and Italy, he held f staff appointment at the War Office before ueing invalided out in 1945 with the rank of “eutenant-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 : Birmingham Aston

CANDIDATE : Wyatt

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Woodrow Wyatt became an M.P. for this division in 1945 at the age of 27 after serving m the war, first in the ranks and finishing with the rank of major, and being mentioned in dispatches for his services m Normandy. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation to India and personal assistant to Sir ?tafford Cripps m the Cabinet Mission to India in 1946. He is a journalist, and was educated at East-Bourne College and Worcester College, Oxford.

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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 : Birmingham Ladywood

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. M. Bennett, aged 31, who contested Burslem as a Liberal National in 1945, is a barrister practising on the Midland Circuit. He served in the war with The Middlesex Yeomanry, and in 1940 was commissioned in the Royal Artillery. Later he became a military experimental officer in the Petroleum Warfare Department and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He has travelled widely and is interested in foreign affairs. In the campaign against the Greek rebels he served as an observer for the Greek Government.

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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 : Birmingham Sparkbrook

CANDIDATE : Crump

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Crump is a toolmaker. A Birmingham man, born in 1899, he has served for many years on the district committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Joining the Communist Party in 1928, he has held various offices. During the first world war he served in the R.N.A.S., and later in the R.A.F. In 1927, and again in 1934, he was in Russia, on the latter occasion for two years.

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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 : Blackpool South

CANDIDATE : Machin

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. Machin is a well-known figure in local Labour and Co-operative circles. For several years he was the only Labour representative on Blackpool Town Council, being defeated at the last municipal elections. He is a past president of the Blackpool Labour Party and recently of the Blackpool Co-operative Society, as well as of Blackpool Trades Council, with which he has been connected for nearly 40 years.

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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 : Bournemouth West

CANDIDATE : Cranborne

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscount Cranborne, born in 1916, is heir to the Marquess of Salisbury, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords. On leaving Oxford, he joined The Grenadier Guards and served from 1939 to 1945 with the Guards Armoured Division and was wounded. Later he was Military Assistant to Mr. Harold Macmillan when Resident Minister in North Africa. Since the war he has studied farming and estate management.

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