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 : Middlesbrough West

CANDIDATE : Wright

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Wright is a member of a local family long associated with the Conservative cause. Aged 53, he was educated at Middlesbrough High School. He has been in the iron and steel business all his life, and is managing director of an old-established ironworks of which Mr. Alfred Edwards is a director. He is an authority on the technical side of the industry, and holds office in a number of organizations connected with the iron and steel trade.

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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 : Shackleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Shackleton was the Labour candidate in 1945, and is 49. He went to a council school in Bradford, but his parents moved to Newcastle and he was apprenticed to engineering. He worked as maintenance engineer and later became assistant divisional organizer for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.

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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 East

CANDIDATE : Harrison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Harrison, born in 1899, entered Parliament in 1945 as member for this division. A railway engine driver, he is on the executive of the National Union of Rail-waymen and has been chairman of the South Derbyshire Labour Party | and an N.C.L.C. lecturer. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation which visited China. Transport questions and the colonies are among his special interests in Parliament.

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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 West

CANDIDATE : Hale

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Leslie Hale first entered Parliament at the 1945 election and had the reputation of being the fastest speaker in the House. Forty-eight years of age and a solicitor, he qualified nine months before he was old enough to be admitted. He began to practise in Leicestershire and was a county councillor for 20 years. In 1939 he enlisted in the Royal Artillery. He now practises in London.

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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 : Poole

CANDIDATE : Wheatley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. M. J. Wheatley represented East Dorset in the last Parliament and was a Conservative Whip. Now in his 70th year, he served in the South African war and the 1914-18 war and commanded a Home Guard battalion in the last war. For 20 years he was in the Sudan Political Service, became private secretary to the Governor-General of the Sudan in 1916, and later was appointed Governor of the Bahr-el-Shazal Province. After retiring from the Army he turned to municipal affairs, and became mayor of Poole and an alderman of the Dorset 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 : Preston South

CANDIDATE : McLean

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. L. D. McLean, who recently resigned his commission in the Army to take an active part in politics, was born in 1918, and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He served in Palestine during the Arab rebellion, and commanded a battalion of Eritrean Volunteers in Abyssinia under General Wingate. He parachuted into Greece in 1943 and headed the first allied military mission to the Albanian resistance movement. He is now associated with his family’s export business.

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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 : Rochester and Chatham

CANDIDATE : Mathew

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Mathew, a barrister, born in 1911, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel during the war, and when serving in Greece was responsible for the personal security of Mr. Churchill during his visit to Athens in 1944. He has been on Chelsea Borough Council and has also been a member of the Standing Joint Committee of the Metropolitan boroughs.

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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 : Ruislip Northwood

CANDIDATE : Wood

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. G. R. McGregor Wood (55) was educated at King Edward High School, Birmingham, and Cambridge, obtaining an arts degree. A daughter of a congregational minister, she has had wide experience in religious, social, and political work. She visited Germany and Denmark last year as chairman of the Women’s International League. During the war she was a social worker with the American Red Cross.

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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 : Sheffield Hallam

CANDIDATE : Spears

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. C. Spears, who is 50, started work in a mine at 14 and later became a miners’ delegate. He studied at W.E.A. classes and left the mines at 38 to become a weights and measures inspector of Durham County Council. A Methodist local preacher, he is president of Durham County Trades 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 : Southall

CANDIDATE : Cole

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. J. Cole was born in 1909 and has held a permanent commission in the R.N.V.R. since 1934, being now a lieutenant-commander in the Supply and Secretariat branch. A former secretary of the Barnet Vale Conservative Association, he has done much work for the Party on the northern borders of London. He has served on numerous committees dealing with youth, health welfare, and Church matters, and is studying for the Bar.

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