CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hayes and Harlington
CANDIDATE : Foster
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Foster, an engineer, aged 35, is a member of the Engineering Shop Stewards National Council, secretary of Hayes Communist Party, and a member of the editorial board of the 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 : Hornsey
CANDIDATE : Leevers
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss A. Leevers, a 36-year-old teacher, was educated at Tollington High School, Muswell Hill, and London University, where she gained an English honours degree. She is a tutor in social studies and English at Barnet further education centre. From 1944-46 she was a Red Cross relief worker in Italy and Austria, and later worked in displaced persons camps in Vienna. In 1949 she won the senior Walter Hines scholarship and toured the United States.
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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 : Ipswich
CANDIDATE : Stokes
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. R. Stokes, chairman and managing director of Ransqmes and Rapier Limited, Ipswich, was first returned for Ipswich in 1938. Born in 1897, he was educated at Downside, the Royal Military Academy, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Artillery in the 1914-18 war, winning the M.C. and bar and the Croix-de-Guerre. He was on the Parliamentary delegation to Cairo, 1947. He is well known in the House for his independent outlook and outspoken criticisms.
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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 : Kingston upon Hull North
CANDIDATE : Lawson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. F. C. Lawson, the son of a miner, was educated at elementary and grammar schools, and at college, and is a head master. For many years he was a member of the Chester-?e-Street Urban Council. He is on the executive committee of the National Union of Teachers, and during the war was a captain in the Royal Artillery.
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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 : Leeds North West
CANDIDATE : Mishcon
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. V. Mishcon, who was born in London •n 1915, is a solicitor practising in London and Leeds. He became a member of Lambeth Borough Council in 1945, and of the L.C.C. in 1946, and has been chairman of the Public Control Committee of the L.C.C. for two years. He served during the war, and was afterwards appointed adjutant of the 2nd Cadet Bn., the Royal Fusiliers.
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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 : Leicester North West
CANDIDATE : Nicolson
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. N. Nicolson, who was born in 1917, is a son of Mr. Harold Nicolson, who for 10 years represented the former West Leicester division at Westminster as National Labour member and was the unsuccessful Labour candidate at the North Croydon by-election in 1948. Mr. N. Nicolson was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He served in the Grenadier Guards during the war. He is a director of a publishing company.
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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 : Liverpool Edge Hill
CANDIDATE : Irvine
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. J. Irvine first contested Kincardine as a Liberal, and in 1943 joined the Labour Party, fighting Twickenham and later South Aberdeen without success. In 1945 he succeeded at Edge Hill. An M.A. of Edinburgh, he also took an Oxford degree and was president of the Union. He is son of the late Mr. J. M. Irvine, K.C.
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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 : Liverpool Toxteth
CANDIDATE : Gibbins
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Gibbins first contested the West Toxteth division in 1922 and in the course of 13 years fought eight elections. He was M.P. for that division from 1924 until 1931, when he was defeated, but recaptured the seat in 1935. He was born in 1888, served his apprenticeship as a boiler maker, and served in the Navy during the 1914-18 war.
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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 : Manchester Blackley
CANDIDATE : Jamieson
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. Jamieson, born in 1907, was apprenticed to a family printing business, and after studying at Manchester School of Technology succeeded his father as managing director of the business. When only 16 he was assistant secretary of the Stretford Junior Imperial League and later held other offices. He is a member of Chapel-en-le-Frith Rural District 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 : Manchester Moss Side
CANDIDATE : Horsbrugh
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss F. Horsbrugh represented Dundee in Parliament for 14 years and was unseated in 1945. Educated at Lans-downe House, Edinburgh, and St. Hilda’s, Folkestone, she represented Britain on the League of Nations from 1933 to 1936. In 1938 she created Parliamentary history by being the first woman to move the Address in reply to the King’s Speech. Appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in 1939, she occupied that position until the end of the Coalition Government. In the ” caretaker ” Government she was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food. After her defeat at Midlothian and Peebles in this Election she was adopted for Moss Side.
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