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 South

CANDIDATE : Darling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir William Darling, a former lord-provost and city treasurer of Edinburgh, is proprietor of a drapery store and two bookshops in the city and director of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company. Born in 1885, he went to James Gilles-pie’s School, Daniel Stewart’s School, and Heriot-Watt College. He is the author of several publications, including ” The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller.”

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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 Central

CANDIDATE : Hutchison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. R. H. Hutchison, member for the division from 1945 to the dissolution, is a shipowner who for many years was the Glasgow representative in the Chamber of Shipping. A veteran of the 1914-18 war, in which he served with the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, he worked with the underground movement in France in the 1939-45 war, and as his features were well known to the Germans he submitted to surgical treatment which made a permanent alteration. Born in 1893, he was educated at Harrow.

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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 Kelvingrove

CANDIDATE : Grieve

PARTY : Scot. Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. M. Grieve is a Scottish poet and author whose works are well known under his pen name of Hugh MacDiarmid. He is a staunch supporter of everything Scottish.

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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 : McNicol

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. McNicol, a chartered accountant, fought the seat in 1935 and is a former president of the Springburn Unionist Association. He served in the 1914-18 war with The Highland Light Infantry and was the first to rejoin his battalion in 1939, later serving as a lieutenant-colonel in the European campaign.

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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 : Paisley

CANDIDATE : Black

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Black unsuccessfully contested the St. Rollox division of Glasgow in 1935. Born in 1899 and educated at Oxford, he has held appointments on the staff of a cotton firm in Paisley and abroad. He served in both world wars, and in the second gained the Air Force Cross of Greece.

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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 : South Angus

CANDIDATE : Jenkins

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Jenkins, a Dumfriesshire farmer, is 31 and was educated at Winchester. He is chairman of the local N.F.U. branch, a director of agricultural companies and of the Dumfriesshire Cattle Breeders’ Association, and an executive committee member of the Scottish Association of Young Farmers’ Clubs.

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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 : South Ayrshire

CANDIDATE : George

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. George, aged 48, is the son of a miner and entered the pits at the age of 14, rising to become a general manager in 1938. He severed his connexion with coal mining after nationalization and is chairman of a slate firm. In 1948 he was appointed chairman of the Mineral Resources Panel of the Scottish Council for Development and 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 : Dunbartonshire West

CANDIDATE : Allan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. R. A. Allan had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy and was the youngest officer to hold the rank of commander in the R.N.V.R. For his war service he was awarded the D.S.O., the O.B.E., French Legion of Honour, and American Legion of Merit, and was four times mentioned in dispatches. For a time he was attached to the British Embassy, Washington, and is interested in Anglo-American relations. He contested Dunbartonshire in 1945.

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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 : Galloway

CANDIDATE : McKie

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. McKie is a member of one of the t oldest families in Gallo-way, who received land from King Robert the Bruce more than 600 years ago. His grandfather and great grandfather both represented the constituency, and Mr. McKie has held it since 1931. Born in 1898, he was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He is a landowner and a bachelor.

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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 : Rutherglen

CANDIDATE : Brooman-White

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. Brooman-White is a journalist and took an honours degree in economics and modern languages at Cambridge. He served in the war and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. A former secretary to Sir Archibald Cochrane, Unionist M.P. for Dunbartonshire, of which Mr. Brooman-White is a native, he was for a year in the diplomatic service at the British Embassy in Turkey.

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