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 : Normanton

CANDIDATE : Brooks

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. J. Brooks, member for the former Rothwell division since 1942, worked as a miner for 40 years, and for 30 years was branch secretary of the local miners’ union. He was four times chairman of Castleford U.D.C., on which he served for 30 years, and was a member of the county council for )8 years. He received the M.B.E. in 1931 for public services.

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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 : Sowerby

CANDIDATE : Houghton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Houghton, 51, is secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff’s Federation, and before holding that position was in the Post Office in London and then in the income-tax department. In 1947 he became an alderman of the London County Council, and in 1949, when Mr. Belcher resigned, he was elected member of Parliament for Sowerby.

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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 : Merthyr Tydfil

CANDIDATE : Haddrill

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. F. Haddrill, an electrical engineer and contractor in Cardiff, was born in Liverpool in 1891. Leaving an elementary school when 13, he worked in a solicitor’s office and entered electrical engineering in the Post Office service. He served as an R.E. sapper, then went to sea, worked in Canada, and returned to Liverpool to join the police. He established his own business in Cardiff in 1920, and is chairman of two electrical trade associations.

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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 : Anglesey

CANDIDATE : Lloyd-George

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Megan Lloyd-George, who is 47, is the younger daughter of the late Earl Lloyd-George, and vice-president of the Liberal Party. She has been M.P. for Anglesey since 1929, and when last year she completed 21 years of unbroken service as an M.P. she was honoured by her women colleagues in the House of Commons, of whom she was the senior. In 1944-45 she was chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Party, and is a member of the British Council, National Federation of Women’s Institutes ; she is also on the B.B.C. Committee of Inquiry.

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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 : Carmarthen

CANDIDATE : Morris

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Hopkin Morris, K.C., has been Liberal member for Carmarthen since 1945. A graduate of the University of Wales, he was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple and in 1921 took silk. He is the son of a Congregational minister. He was sitting in the House of Commons as M.P. for Cardiganshire in 1932 when he was appointed a Metropolitan Magistrate, and four years later he became regional director for Wales of the B.B.C., an appointment he resigned just before the 1945 election.

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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 : Flintshire West

CANDIDATE : Leadbeater

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. V. Leadbeater, 41, graduated at the University of Wales with first-class honours in English, and in 1929 was president of the Debates Union there. A grammar schoolmaster at Mold, he is also a university extension lecturer and tutor in English and current affairs. During the war he was an education and welfare officer in the National Fire Service. He is well known in North and South Wales .as a Rugby player.

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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 : Ogmore

CANDIDATE : Padley

PARTY : lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. E. Padley, is 33 and was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford. Active in the Labour movement since 1932, at one time he was a close colleague of James Maxton in the leadership of the I.L.P. He is president of the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, and from 1941 to 1946 was a member of the I.L.P. national 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 : Monmouth

CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, elected M.P. for Stafford in 1938, was defeated in 1945 but won a by-election at Monmouth in October of that year. Born in 1909 ?nd educated at Eton, he went on to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1930. Four years later he became a barrister and practised on the Oxford circuit. In the ” caretaker” Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.

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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 : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Pirie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. T. Pirie, aged 28, was a fighter pilot in the war and won the 0.F.M. He graduated at Aberdeen University in engineering, and was president of the Scottish Union of Students.

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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 : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Sleigh

PARTY : Ind. Scot. Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. H. Sleigh is a retired cavalry officer, who served in the 1914-18 war. He has contested the Edinburgh Corporation elections, and at the last General Election in 1945 he was a candidate for the same constituency, when he forfeited his deposit.

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