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 : Leicester North West

CANDIDATE : Burrows

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. A. Burrows, born in 1888, the son of a Baptist minister, received early education in America, but returned to England to study at Manchester University, where he gained his M.A. and B.D. with honours. Later he took a degree in economics at London University and is classical master at Belper Grammar School.

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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 Edge Hill

CANDIDATE : Errington

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Errington, aged 50, was educated at Mill Hill, Liverpool College (of which he is a governor), and Trinity College, Oxford. Called to the Bar in 1923, he practises on the Northern Circuit. He won the Bootle seat in 1935, and was formerly a member of Liverpool City Council and is chairman of Liverpool Boys’ Association Development Committee. He was a Wing Commander 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 : Liverpool Toxteth

CANDIDATE : Holt

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss A. D. Holt is a daughter of the late Sir Richard Holt, who was Liberal member for Hexham from 1907 to 1918. A graduate of Oxford University, she has undertaken research work for the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the General Assembly of the Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

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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 Blackley

CANDIDATE : Moore

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. D. Moore, aged 37, fought Moss Side in 1945. A teacher, he has been president of the Manchester Teachers’ Association. In 1948-49 he was president of the National League of Young Liberals. Serving in the Royal Navy during the war, he lost a leg in a Japanese dive-bombing attack on the Dorsetshire.

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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 Moss Side

CANDIDATE : Casasola

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. W. Casasola was born in 1894 and worked for 29 years as a moulder. He joined the Army in 1914 and was wounded in 1918. He is an executive member of the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers, and helped to form the International Foundry Workers’ Federation, in connexion with which he has visited Sweden, Denmark, and Poland. He is a member of the Railway Shopmen’s National Council and the Shipbuilding and Engineering Confederation.

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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 : Middlesbrough West

CANDIDATE : Cooper

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Geoffrey Cooper is in business as an adviser on reorganization and development. Born in 1907, he went to grammar schools at Leicester and Worcester, and afterwards studied accountancy and business management. Before the war he was engaged in civil flying, and during the war was a wing commander in Fighter and Coastal Commands.

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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 upon Tyne North

CANDIDATE : Headlam

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Cuthbert Headlam was elected for this division in 1940, and previously sat for Barnard Castle, 1924-29 and 1931-35. He was at various times Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, to the Minister of Pensions, and to the Minister of Transport. He was born in 1876, and was adopted for North Newcastle at a meeting of the local association, which reversed a decision of the executive council that he should not be nominated because of age. He went to King’s School, Canterbury, and Magdalen College, Oxford, and has been a member of Durham County 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 : Nottingham Central

CANDIDATE : Glyn-Barton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. M. Glyn-Barton, aged 24, is articled to his father, a London solicitor. ?hile at Brasenose College, Oxford, he founded the Oxford University Centre Society, a Liberal organization, and helped to found the University United Europe movement, but subsequently left it because of a difference on policy.

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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 : Oldham East

CANDIDATE : Kirkman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss W. Kirkman is 52 and is a teacher. She was elected to the Oldham Town Council two years ago. She is also a trained soprano singer. She is a past president of the Oldham branch of the National Union of Women Teachers, chairman of the Oldham Liberal Association, and a past president of the Oldham Business and Professional Women’s Club.

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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 : Pontefract

CANDIDATE : Grant

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Grant, a teacher in the Upton Modern School, near Pontefract, started his career as an engineering apprentice in the Navy. He was wounded aboard H.M.S. Suffolk in the Norweg an campaign, and later joined H.M.S. Heckler, which was sunk in the North African landings in 1942. After the war he was for a time a sales engineer in Malaya.

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