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 : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : MacPherson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. MacPherson won the seat in a by-election in October, 1948, which followed the death in a motor-car accident of Mr. J. Westwood, Secretary of State for Scotland. In 1945 he had unsuccessfully contested Yeovil. Born in 1904, eldest son of a keeper of the Bass Rock lighthouse, he was Dux scholar at Trinity Academy, Leith, and graduated at Edinburgh University. For 10 years a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick, he later joined the staff of University College, Exeter. He served with the Canadian Army in the last war, rising to the rank of major.

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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 : Argyll

CANDIDATE : Nicholson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Nicholson, who is 20 and the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Glasgow, and spent some years in South Africa. He is a student at Glasgow University reading economics.

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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 : Banffshire

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Brown is the 22-year-old grandson of the late Mr. James Brown, for many years member for South Ayrshire and three times Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He holds a teaching appointment at Forres Academy.

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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 : Fife East

CANDIDATE : McLaren

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. McLaren, a patternmaker, aged 45, is Scottish area organizer of the United Patternmakers’ Association; and has been a member of its executive. He has had considerable experience in local government in Greenock, and is a member of the Western Regional Hospital Board.

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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 : Bothwell

CANDIDATE : Timmons

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Timmons, born in 1891, had an elementary and technical education and worked in the pits before he was 13. For 20 years he was a checkweighman, and for 30 years branch secretary of the miners’ union. For many years he served on the executive of the Scottish area of the mine-workers’ union, on the Lanark County Council, on the panel of referees for the Ministry of Labour, and on the advisory committee to the Assistance Board.

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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 : Midlothian and Peeblesshire

CANDIDATE : Pryde

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. J. Pryde was born in 1890 and worked as a miner until 1933, when he took up full-time union activities. He served for many years on the Mid and West Lothian Miners’ Delegate Board, and for 10 years represented Lo?hian miners on the executive of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers. A member of the Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Town Council, he resigned from that body in 1945 when he won the former Peebles and Southern Midlothian constituency from the Conservatives.

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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 : Renfrewshire East

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. L. Taylor, a solicitor and notary public, was born in 1916. He was at Glasgow University, and is a partner in a Glasgow firm of solicitors. He was at one time chairman of the Glasgow Federation of the I.L.P. and a member of the Scottish Executive of the I.L.P., and joined the Labour Party in 1947. He is also a former member of the Glasgow Trades Council and the clerks’ 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 : Battersea South

CANDIDATE : Tyers

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. C. Tyers was born in Battersea, and went to Lavender Hill School and Salesian College. After service in the R.N.V.R. in the war he took a hotel in Broadstairs, where he is a member of the urban council. He is a football referee and commanding officer of Sea Cadets at Ramsgate.

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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 : Chelsea

CANDIDATE : Tonge

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. L. Tonge, born in 1896, and educated at the Merchant Venturers’ Secondary School, is a railway clerk, and a member of the national executive of the Railway Clerks’ Association. For six years up to 1939 he was a member of the Swindon Town 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 : Fulham West

CANDIDATE : Walcot-Bather

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Walcot-Bather, born in 1908, is an architect and surveyor. During the war he was engaged for a time in the construction of aerodromes, and afterwards served with the J*”A.S.C. He was prospective Liberal candidate for North Lambeth from 1937 to 1939.

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