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 : Motherwell

CANDIDATE : Robertson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. A. Robertson, son of a Wishaw doctor, is 23, and became candidate at short notice on the withdrawal on medical advice of the prospective candidate. He won a scholarship to Malvern College, and graduated M.B., Ch.B., at Edinburgh last year.

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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 : Orkney and Shetland

CANDIDATE : Leslie

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. R. Leslie, K.C., who was born in 1905, is a native of South Shields. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. In 1930 he secured his LL.B., and in 1937 was called to the Scottish Bar. He became counsel for the Department of Agriculture, Scotland, and Sheriff Clerk Depute in the Glasgow circuit. He served in the Army during the war. and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war he was appointed legal assessor to the Dean of Guild and Burgh Courts of Edinburgh. He took silk ast year.

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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 : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Loch

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. D. Loch is the second son of Major-General Lord Loch, and was born in 1920. Educated at Wellington and Trinity College, Cambridge, he served in the war in the Grenadier Guards, and was awarded the M.C., and when demobilized was a major. During 1947-48 he worked in Mr. Churchill’s secretariat at the Conservative Central Office.

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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 : Bethnal Green

CANDIDATE : Mildwater

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Mildwater, a bricklayer, was born in 1915, and has been associated with the Communist Party for 19 years. He fought with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, reaching the rank of lieutenant, and was wounded.

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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 : Deptford

CANDIDATE : Sarjeant

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Sarjeant, born in 1908, was e?ucated at Chatham House County Grammar School, Ramsgate, and a fellow student with him there was Mr. E. R. C. Heath, Conservative candidate for Bexley. Mr. Sarjeant is a chartered quantity surveyor, and during the war was surveyor in charge of two American camps and an aerodrome. Treasurer of the West Wickham Dramatic Society.

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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 : Hackney South

CANDIDATE : Betteridge

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. R. Betteridge was born in 1911, and worked in the tailoring trade until two years ago, when he became secretary of the Hackney Communist Party.

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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 : Islington East

CANDIDATE : Wilmot

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. K. Wilmot, born in 1906 in Bo’ness, West Lothian, became a Conservative Party official in Edinburgh, and later political secretary to the Duchess of Atholl. Early in the war she was a motor driver for the Bucks police, and later became an A.B.C.A. lecturer.

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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 : Lambeth Brixton

CANDIDATE : Lipton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. M. Lipton, Who won Brixton for the Labour Party in 1945, was born in 1900 in ^underland and went to Oxford with a scholar-snip- He studied law and was called to the Bar in 1926. He became an alderman of Lambeth Borough Council. A Private in the Territorial Army before the war, ne rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. His recreation is ” giving aavice,” and he has conducted a free advice bureau m Brixton since 1933.

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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 : Lewisham South

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Jones, aged 49, is a London bus “river. He was secretary of the London Busmen’s Rank and File Movement, 1932-37, and took a leading part in the strike in 1937. Expelled from the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1937, he was readmitted in ^ 38, and became chairman of the Central Bus Committee in 1944. He was elected to the executive committee in 1943, but the rule debarring Communists from holding office in the union prevented his sitting on the committee. He is vice-chairman of the London District Committee of the Communist Party.

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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 : St Marylebone

CANDIDATE : Wakefield

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir W. Wavell Wakefield became M.P. for this division in 1945, after having represented Swindon in Parliament since 1935. He was educated at Sedbergh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is a company director and on the executive of the National Union of j Manufacturers. Now 51, he is a former captain of England, Cambridge University, Middlesex, the R.A.F., and the Harlequins, and is vice-president of the Rugby Football Union.

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