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 : Ilford North

CANDIDATE : Hutchinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Hutchinson, K.C., sat for Ilford from 1937 until 1945. Born in 1893, he served in the 1914-18 war and, as a territorial, he was mobilized in 1939 and served through the campaign in France, including the Dunkirk evacuation. He was appointed deputy assistant secretary to the War Office in 1941, but resigned in 1942 to resume his Parliamentary duties. He has been an alderman of the London County Council since 1945.

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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 : Kingston upon Hull East

CANDIDATE : Pursey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. H. Pursey served nearly 30 years in the Royal Navy and was the first naval officer promoted from the lower deck to become an M.P. Born in 1891, he joined the Navy as a seaman boy in 1907. In the 1914-18 war he served with the Dover Patrol and the Grand Fleet and was at the Battle of Jutland. Commissioned in 1917, he was in the Black Sea operations 1919-20 and also served in Somaliland and Mesopotamia. He was retired in 1936. A lecturer and journalist, he was first elected for East Hull in 1945.

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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 : Leeds North East

CANDIDATE : Bidgood

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. Bidgood was born in London in 1914 and is a steel constructional engineer and export agent. He was educated at Dulwich College and Oxford. He joined the R.A.F. in 1939 and later was seconded for constructional work on aerodromes and Mulberry harbours. He is a member of the Institute of Export and of Leeds City 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 : Leeds West

CANDIDATE : Mather

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Mather, who reduced the Labour majority in West Leeds by 10,000 at the by-election in July, 1949, was born in Leeds in 1914. Ed ucated at Leeds University, he became a schoolmaster, but left that profession to enter the family beer and wine business. During the war he worked for the Admiralty on research into magnetic and acoustic mines.

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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 : Leigh

CANDIDATE : Whiteley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Whiteley, a barrister, is in the unusual position of being a member of two councils—Salford City and Prestwich Borough. Born in 1903, he is a partner in a firm of electrical engineers and contractors. He is also chairman of a Salford motor company. He is associated with Salford Royal Hospital, and is a past chairman of the Lancashire Fusiliers Cadet Welfare Committee.

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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 : Liverpool Kirkdale

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D.?J. Lewis, an architect practising in Liverpool, was born at Aberystwyth and educated at the University there and at Liverpool. He has been on the city council since 1935 and is chairman of the Corporation Estate Committee. He is a member of the probation and juvenile panels. He is chairman of Liverpool Welsh Choral Union.

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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 : Luton

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. C. Hill is well known as the ” Radio Doctor,” and holds the following appointments : Secretary of the British Medical Association and Central Medical War Committee ; president of the World Medical Association ; secretary of the Commonwealth Medical Conference; vice-president of the Central Council for Health Education ; and member of the Industrial Health Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labour. His broadcast a few days before the election was regarded by many people as one of the most notable of the series. He contested Cambridge unsuccessfully as an Independent in 1945.

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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 : Manchester Exchange

CANDIDATE : Harper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. S. Harper, a director of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, was born in 1902, and educated at Manchester and at the Ashridge Political College, Herts. From 1921 to 1932 he was employed in general and electrical engineering. He has been a member of Manchester City Council since 1932, and was also a member of Lord Soulbury’s committee on Unemployment Assistance. He has held political posts in Manchester as secretary and agent.

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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 : Merton and Morden

CANDIDATE : Ryder

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. R. E. D. Ryder, R.N., V.C, was born in 1908 and was educated at Cheltenham College. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1925, and was awarded the King’s Dirk while serving in the cadet training ship H.M.S. Erebus. He was promoted commander in December, 1940, and captain in June, 1948, and commanded the research vessel Penola on the Rymill Expedition to the Antarctic. He was naval liaison officer on the staff of Field-Marshal Alexander at the headquarters of Southern Command. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for the part he played while in command of the naval forces in the St. Nazaire raid in 1943, and was three times mentioned in dispatches. Since the war he has been British Naval Attache at Oslo.

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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 : Newcastle-under-Lyme

CANDIDATE : Friend

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. A. Friend is a Regular Army officer who was commissioned in 1936 after education at Harrow and Sandhurst, and retired in 1947. He served with the 7th Armoured Division in the Middle East and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was a liaison officer through the Battles of Alamein and of the Western Desert, and was later posted as chief armoured car instructor at Sandhurst. In 1944 he took part in the liberation of Europe, and in 1945 was with the Allied Military Government of Hanover.

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