CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Yardley
CANDIDATE : Matthews
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. Matthews, a chartered accountant, is secretary and a director of two well-known Birmingham businesses. Aged 40, he was born m Birmingham and educated at Repton. He was at the Admiralty during the war on financial work.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolton East
CANDIDATE : Bell
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. Bell is a chancery barrister practising in Manchester and is aged 50. Born at Wimbledon, he was educated at Stonyhurst College and at Queen’s College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1925. He served in the Royal Navy in the first world war, and in the second he was commissioned and served in France. In 1941 he joined the staff of the Judge Advocate General.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford Central
CANDIDATE : Sarsby
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. F. Sarsby, who is 38, is an aeronautical engineer, living at Wraysbury. During the war he was engaged with the Pathfinder Force under Air Vice-Marshal Bennett, who is now again his chief in the aircraft company by whom he is employed.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighouse and Spenborough
CANDIDATE : Woolley
PARTY : Nat. L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. E. Woolley, who was born in 1901, was National Liberal M.P. for Spen Valley. 1940-45, being defeated at the last election. A native of Blackburn, he is 49, and joint managing director of a firm of manufacturing chemists. In the war, he was on the headquarters staff of South-Eastern Command and later Western Command, reaching the rank of major. He has held many offices in Methodism.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol South
CANDIDATE : Wilkins
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. A. Wilkins, formerly a linotype operator in a Bristol newspaper office, was born in 1899. He joined the Labour Party in 1922 and was for 10 years a member of Bristol City Council. Elected for South Bristol in 1945, he became an assistant Government Whip two years later and was afterwards appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. During the wan as a stoker in the Royal Navy, he served on Q-ships submarine-hunting off the Irish coast.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Burnley
CANDIDATE : Carradice
PARTY : I.L.P.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. Carradice, 64 years of age, has been district organizer for the Independent Labour Party in Lancashire and Cheshire since 1946, after having been organizer in Glasgow for three years. He was previously a branch secretary of the General and Municipal Workers’ Union.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chesterfield
CANDIDATE : Barker
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. B. Barker, a machine worker, a shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union, fu ^airman of a works committee, lived in tne Soviet Union for two years and has been secretary of the Sheffield Communist Party.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon East
CANDIDATE : Gray
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. L. Gray, a Southern Counties representative of a Yorkshire textile firm, has been an active worker in the Liberal cause in Surrey for many years. He represents Whyteleafe on the Caterham and Warlinsrfiam Urban Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dartford
CANDIDATE : Roberts
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss M. Roberts, aged 24, attended Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, where she won a bursary to Somerville College, Oxford. She took an honours degree and was awarded a B.Sc. (Research) degree. She was engaged on research work at Colchester. While at Oxford she became president of the University Conservative Association—the third woman to hold that office.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dudley
CANDIDATE : Wigg
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. E. C. Wigg, who won Dudley for the Labour Party in 1945, as Parliamentary private secretary accompanied Mr. Shin well, Secretary of State for War, on his visits to British troops abroad. Born in 1900, he joined the Tank Corps when 19 and served for 23 years in Turkey, India, Iraq, the Sudan, and West Africa. Discharged in 1937, he rejoined in 1940, and worked for better welfare and education in the Army. He is one of the joint authors of ” Keeping Left.”
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