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 : Walthamstow West

CANDIDATE : Hutchinson

PARTY : Lab. Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. L. Hutchinson, a journalist and author who studied at Neuchatel, Geneva, and Edinburgh, sat in the 1945 Parliament as Labour member for the Rusholme division of Manchester. He was expelled from the Labour Party in July, 1949, for his criticism of the Government’s foreign policy. Born in 1904, he served in the Navy from 1942 to 1944.

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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 : Wembley South

CANDIDATE : Jackson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Jackson, a cost accountant, was born in 1904, and lives at Kenton. First chairman of North Wembley Liberal Association, he is on the executive of the Home Counties Liberal Federation, and took a leading part in organizing the Liberal campaign fund.

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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 : Willesden East

CANDIDATE : Orbach

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Orbach won the seat for Labour in 1945. Born in 1902 in Cardiff, he went to London in 1915, and has been a member of the L.C.C. He was in the tobacco trade before the war, and is now general secretary of the Trades Advisory Council. As an M.P. he travelled to Australia, the United States and Western Europe on lecture tours.

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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 : Woodford

CANDIDATE : Churchill

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and Minister of Defence from May, 1940, to July, 1945, when his Government was defeated at the polls. Since then he has been Leader of the Opposition. The eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill, third son of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, he was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and before entering politics was commissioned in the 4th Hussars. He was returned to Parliament in 1900 as a Conservative for Oldham, but joined the Liberal Party and successfully contested Northwest Manchester at the 1906 election. From 1908 to 1922 he sat for Dundee, and re-entered Parliament in 1924 for Epping, and soon afterwards returned to the Conservative fold. Mr. Churchill has held more ministerial posts than any other politician, the most notable being his two terms as First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of each of the two World Wars, and office as Prime Minister in May, 1940, when the fortunes of the allies were rapidly declining. His vision and leadership inspired the British people with the will to win during the long year when they stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany. Mr. Churchill is universally recognized as the architect of the victory of the United Nations, and ?n more recent years he has been closely identified with the project for the Council of Europe, which was established at Strasbourg last summer. He is the author of many famous books, the best known of which are ” The World Crisis “—his history of the 1914-18 war—and ” Marlborough,” and has published the first two volumes of his history of the 1939-45 war. He is in his seventy-sixth year.

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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 : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Soames

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. C. Soames is 29 and the husband of Mr. Churchill’s daughter Mary. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards at 19 and served in Lord Wavell’s Middle East •campaign in 1941. He ^vas wounded in the 1942 push at El Agheila, and later went on secret work in Italy and France. After the war he was assistant Military Attache in Paris, where he met Miss Churchill. He is now farming 500 acres at Chartwell Farm, next to his father-in-law’s home.

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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 : Newbury

CANDIDATE : Burrows

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Burrows is 28, is a Lancastrian and school teacher. As a boy, he travelled in France with his father for two years, and, early in 1939, though only 17, he joined The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and saw five years’ service in the war. He lives at Chalfont St. Giles, where he is vice-chairman of the parish council, and takes a prominent part in the village workers’ educational movement.

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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 : Wycombe

CANDIDATE : Haire

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. John Haire won Wycombe in 1945. Born in 1908, the son of a working engineer, he was educated at Bangor Grammar School, and graduated at Queen’s University, Belfast, with first – class honours in English literature, and became a schoolmaster and lecturer. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in Coastal Command and for a time air liaison officer with the Admiralty.

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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 : Knutsford

CANDIDATE : Hamnett

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Hamnett, of East Didsbury, Manchester, is 43, and has lived in the area all his life. He is on the Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative movement, and a director of Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society. He is publicity officer for the Union of Shop Stewards and Allied Trades.

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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 : Wirral

CANDIDATE : Lloyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, K..C., first elected for Wirral in 1945, was born at West Kirby in 1904. At Cambridge he won an open classical scholarship, and was called to the Bar in 1930. During the war he was a brigadier on the General Staff of the Second Army. A K.C. in 1941, he became Recorder of Wigan in 1948, and has been chairman of Hoylake council. He was President of the Cambridge Union in 1927.

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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 : Truro

CANDIDATE : Whitmarsh

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Whitmarsh is an incorporated accountant practising in Plymouth. He is 41, and was educated at Plymouth College. He is a director of several companies. Associated with the English Speaking Union, he was formerly Plymouth secretary, and is a former chairman of the Plymouth Junior Chamber of Commerce.

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