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 : Oldbury and Halesowen

CANDIDATE : Baxter

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. C. Baxter was born in 1911. After some years in the mercantile marine, he joined a firm of bolt, screw, and rivet manufacturers as a labourer and in 1939 was appointed general manager. He served during the war on a Ministry of Production area committee. He is chairman of the Non-Ferrous Small Rivet Association and vice-chairman of the Midland group of the Institution of Works Managers.

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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 : Plymouth Sutton

CANDIDATE : Middleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Lucy Middleton, member for this constituency since 1945, stood for South Padding-ton in 1931 and Pudsey and Otley in 1935. Bom in a Somerset village in 1894, she became a teacher in Bristol and Gloucestershire and an active worker in the Labour cause. In the conferences and inquiries from which the India Act, 1935, emerged she acted as political adviser of Hindu minorities. In 1936 she married Mr. J. S. Middleton, a former national secretary of the Labour 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 : Preston North

CANDIDATE : Amery

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Julian Amery, son of Mr. L. S. Amery, was born in 1919 and educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1941 he organized the first military mission to the Yugoslav Resistance movement, landing on the coast of Montenegro from a submarine. Later he was parachuted into Albania as a liaison officer with the guerrillas. After being wounded in action in 1944 he served on the staff of General Carton de Wiart, V.C., and as Mr. Churchill’s personal representative with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

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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 : Richmond

CANDIDATE : Westwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Westwood, aged 39, is organizer for the National Council of Labour Colleges. He has acted as agent for the Labour candidate in previous Richmond elections. During the war he served with the Royal Marines and as a Commando.

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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 : Rowley Regis and Tipton

CANDIDATE : Henderson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Arthur Henderson, K.C., is a son of the late Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, 1929-31. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1921 and took silk in 1939. He was M.P. for South Cardiff in 1923 and again in 1929 and represented Kingswin-ford from 1935 until its extinction in the redistribution. He held a number of junior Ministerial posts between 1940 and 1945, and in the last Government became Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma, then Minister for Commonwealth Relations, and finally Secretary of State for Air.

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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 : Sheffield Attercliffe

CANDIDATE : Farris

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Farris was born in London in 1905, and at 16 went to Belgium, working in an office for 18 months. Then he went into business with his father, and in 1933 joined a Sheffield wire manufacturers, and is now managing director. He was elected to Sheffield City Council in 1945, and is a freeman of the Cutlers’ Company, and on the executive committee of the Sheffield Philharmonic 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 : Sheffield Park

CANDIDATE : Fullard

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Fullard, who joined the Communist Party in 1939, was formerly a miner, and served during the war in the infantry and the Tank Corps, in India and the Far East.

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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 : Southend West

CANDIDATE : Channon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Channon was elected for Southend in 1935, when he succeeded Lady Iveagh, his mother-in-law. From 1938 to 1941 he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. R. A. Butler when Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and during the war went abroad on several missions. A director of a brewing firm, he is aged 50.

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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 : Stockport South

CANDIDATE : Gridley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Arnold Gridley, born in 1878, has represented Stockport since 1935. Manager of an electric lighting and tramways company at the age of 22, he has a wide experience in electricity supply and was electricity controller for the Ministry of Munitions in 1916. He is chairman of a group of electricity manufacturing and other companies. He was President of the British Association of Chambers of Commerce, 1946-48.

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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 : Sunderland North

CANDIDATE : Willey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. T. Wil?ey, elected for Sunderland in 1945, was born in 1910, educated at Cambridge, called to the Bar in 1936, and was for a time a barrister on the Northern Circuit. During the war he served with the A.F.S. in East London, and was London regional officer of the Fire Brigades Union. He became Parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary in 1946. He is a director of the North East Trading Estates, Limited.

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