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 : Rhondda East

CANDIDATE : Pollitt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Harry Pollitt, leader of the Communist Party, was born in 18S0, and fought the seat in 1935 and 1945. He went to work at 12 in a Lancashire cotton mill, and was later a boilermaker. After leading many dock and shipyard movements for better conditions for the workers, he was sentenced to 12 months’imprisonment in 1925 for sedition, and, with Tom Mann, was arrested in Cardiff in 1934 but was released. During the Spanish Civil War he organized the British battalion of the International Brigade, and visited Spain several times.

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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 : Caernarvon

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. O. Roberts, who is 36, was the youngest Welsh member in the old Parliament. He was educated at the Universities of Wales and London and on the Continent. He is a Fellow of the University of Wales, and is lecturer in education at Swansea University’ College. Formerly he was youth education officer for Caernarvonshire. A governor of the University of Wales, he is also associated with the National Museum of Wales.

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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 : Denbigh

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. E. G. Evans, born in 1911, contested the division as a Liberal in 1945, and stood this year as a National Liberal with the official support of the Conservative Party. A barrister, he was president of the Union at Cambridge, where he graduated with honours, and in the course of extensive travels he was arrested in Germany in 1936 for anti-Fascist views. He was a squadron leadet during the war, serving in North Africa and Italy.

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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 : Barry

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Evans was at one time a journalist, later entered the legal profession, and has been a barrister for the last 17 years. He served in the Royal Navy for five and a half years during the last war and reached the rank of lieutenant-commander.

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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 : Pontypridd

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. I. C. Lewis, an assistant schoolmaster, was educated at Newbridge Grammar School and Monmouthshire Training College. An associate member of the National Association of Probation Officers he has made a study of child welfare and juvenile delinquency. He is a Congregational lay preacher, and Y.M.C.A. social worker.

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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 : Montgomeryshire

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Clement Davies, K.C., Leader of the Liberal Party in ihe House of Commons, nas represented the division uninterruptedly since 1929. Born in 1884, mingling his early school lessons with work on his father’s farm, he later went to Cambridge and took first-class honours in both parts of the Law Tripos, and also gained distinctions when studying for the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1909. He took silk in 1926, and has a leading place in commercial practice.

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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 : Dundee East

CANDIDATE : Henderson

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Henderson, who was born in Kirkcaldy in 1905, fought Dunfermline as a Liberal National in 1945. Educated at Kirkcaldy, Heidelbe?g, and Leipzig, he was a member of KJrkcaldy Town Council at 23. He has been chairman of the Scottish League of Young Liberals and the Kirkcaldy Liberal Association, but left politics in 1934 for 10 years. He is governing director of a Kirkcaldy firm of furniture manufacturers.

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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 : Edinburgh Leith

CANDIDATE : Mekie

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. C. Mekie, a solicitor, aged 42, is the son of a Leith head master and was educated at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University. He specialized in the law governing electiicity supply, and joined Edmundson’s group of electrical power companies, becoming secretary and director of 15 concerns. He left the industry on nationalization and is now director of companies mainly in the chemical and allied industries.

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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 : Glasgow Bridgeton

CANDIDATE : Duncan

PARTY : I.L.P.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Duncan, one of two Glasgow candidates still faithful to the once more active LL.P, Party, has played a prominent part in municipal politics for many years.

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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 : Glasgow Govan

CANDIDATE : Fraser

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. L. Fraser, aged 21, but unable to vote himself, was the youngest Liberal candidate, and probably the youngest in the election. He is assistant secretary of Glasgow University Liberal Club, and is in his final year as an arts student.

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