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 : Crewe

CANDIDATE : Allen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Schofield Allen, K.C., who won Crewe in the 1945 election, is Recorder of Blackburn. Educated at Liverpool University, he was called to the Bar in 1923, practising on the Northern Circuit, and took silk in 1945. He is a member of the Manx Bar and has a commercial and insurance practice. He served in the 1914-18 war, first in the ranks and then with a commission in the R.F.A.

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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 : Stalybridge and Hyde

CANDIDATE : Burden

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. Burden, a solicitor, in partnership at Hyde and living at Romiley, is 33 and was born at Beverley (Yorks). He studied history and law at Cambridge. He served in the war as a rating in the TNavy and took part in Mediterranean engagements. He has been president of Hyde Liberal Association since 1946.

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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 Ives

CANDIDATE : Allison

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. E. F. Allison, born in 1916, won a scholarship from Manchester Grammar School to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took honours in mathematics and a diploma in economics. He was president of the University Liberal Club and of the Union of University Liberal Societies. He is a master at Dulwich College. He commanded a battery in the 5th and 8th Armies in the 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 : High Peak

CANDIDATE : Molson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hugh Molson was M.P. for Doncaster from 1931 to 1935 and for the High Peak from 1939. Born in 1903 he was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth naval colleges, and at Oxford, where he gained first-class honours in jurisprudence; he was president of the Union in 1925. He is a barrister, and during the war was a staff captain in the Anti-Aircraft forces.

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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 : Honiton

CANDIDATE : Barrington

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. Guy Barrington is 45 years of age, and entered the Army through Sandhurst. Much of his service in the last war was in India and Burma, and he finished up as Brigadier in charge of administration on the staff of Field-Marshal Sir William Slim. Retiring in 1946, he took up farming at Hawkchurch in Devon.

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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 : Totnes

CANDIDATE : Tapscott

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Tapscott has for 25 years been a militant trade unionist. He is a former president of the Plymouth and District Trades Council and he served on the central committee of the Plymouth Trades Council during the 1926 strike. Between the wars he was active in the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, and as secretary of the S willy and North Prospect Tenants’ Association he recently organized opposition to local increases in the rents of council houses.

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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 : Chester-le-Street

CANDIDATE : Millican

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. M. Millican is 32, and head of a Newcastle firm of glass and paint manufacturers. Educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh, he entered the family business, and is chairman of the North-Eastern Glass Manufacturers’ Association. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery and rose to the rank of major. He is a leading Rugby player, captained the Northern team, and is secretary.

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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 : Sedgefield

CANDIDATE : Walford

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. E. S. Walford, a Regular officer for 29 years until 1947, serving first with The Worcestershire Regiment and then with the Royal Corps of Signals, was educated at Malvern and Sandhurst. He is a well-known cricketer, having played for Worcestershire, the Army, the M.C.C., and All Egypt. His wife was Conservative candidate at Darlington He was born in 1899.

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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 : Harwich

CANDIDATE : Janis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Janis was taken prisoner of war at Singapore and held by the Japanese for three and a half years, working on the Siam railway and being later transferred to Japan, where he became a liaison officer and interpreter. Now aged 37 and a leather goods merchant, he began life as a shop assistant.

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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 : Gloucestershire South

CANDIDATE : Crosland

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. A. R. Crosland (30) is a lecturer on economics at Oxford University. A member of Oxford University Labour Party, he is on the national executive of the Fabian Society and was president of the Oxford Union in 1946. During the war he served with the Airborne Division in North Africa and Austria.

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