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 : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Renton

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Renton was born in Portobello, and has been a Communist propagandist since his youth. Serving with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, he was captured and sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment, but was released under an exchange scheme. After service in the Royal Artillery in the war, he became Communist Party secretary for South-East Scotland.

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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 South

CANDIDATE : Daiches

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. H. Daiches was born in 1911 the son of a rabbi of the Edinburgh Jewish congregation. Educated at George Watson’s College and Edinburgh University, he practised as a solicitor before being admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1946. Has written many articles arguing the identical nature of Bolshevism and Fascism.

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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 Gorbals

CANDIDATE : Young

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Young, aged 39, studied at the Bonar Law Memorial College, later began business as a joiner, and is now a builder’s agent. He is chairman of the West of Scotland Junior Unionists’ Association.

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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 Maryhill

CANDIDATE : Murray

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss J. S. Murray is 32, lives in Edinburgh, and is the daughter of a Paisley doctor. She took a degree in law and a diploma in social science at Edinburgh University. During the war she was a Ministry of Labour welfare officer in East Scotland, and later assistant labour officer with the Ministry of Supply in Edinburgh. Recently, she has been organizing secretary to the King George V Fund for Sailors in East Scotland.

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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 Springburn

CANDIDATE : Horne

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Horne, one of the most active Communists in Scotland, is propaganda secretary of the Party’s Scottish committee. He has contested both Parliamentary and municipal elections in Glasgow.

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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 : 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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