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 : Newark-on-Trent

CANDIDATE : Deer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Deer represented Lincoln in the last Parliament. He is 60, and became an area organizer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1929. He has served on several trade union committees ; is an alderman of Lincoln City Council, and was mayor in 1933-34, and was appointed Sheriff of the city in 1943.

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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 : Shrewsbury

CANDIDATE : Langford-Holt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Langford-Holt, one of the youngest members in the last Parliament, aged 34, is a local man and went to Shrewsbury School, and is a grandson of a former mayor. He was secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Labour Committee and joint secretary of the House of Commons branch of the British Legion. Has travelled Middle Europe, India, and Africa to obtain first-hand knowledge of local problems. During the war he served in the Fleet Air Arm.

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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 : Wells

CANDIDATE : Marreco

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Marreco, a barrister, 34 years of age, took part in the Nuremberg trial of the German war criminals. Later he went to Berlin as British member of the Four-Power Allied Directorate of Internal Affairs and became chief staff officer to the political adviser to the British Military Governor. He was a lieutenant-commander in the Fleet Air Arm during the war.

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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 : Lichfield and Tamworth

CANDIDATE : Snow

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Snow, aged 40, who represented Central Portsmouth in the last Parliament, was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasu?y, 1946-49, and previously Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. He was educated at Haileybury and the University of Sor-bonne, Paris, and was for nine years with a rubber company in England, East Africa, and India. He is a member ofthe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, and of the Fabian Society. He served in the Royal Artillery in the last war. He is a gieat-grandson of William Hazlitt, the essayist.

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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 : Sudbury and Woodbridge

CANDIDATE : Hamilton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. R. Hamilton is 63 and a former Regular officer in the Royal Engineers, 1905-34. He was elected for the former Sudbury constituency in 1945 with a majority of 247.

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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 : Epsom

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. G. Hudson, 25, was educated at Merchant Taylors’ and at St. Edward’s School. After serving in the Royal Artillery during the war, he went up to St. John’s College, Oxford, and was recently called to the Bar. At the university he was prominent in the Liberal Association, and organized 30 ” commando teams” sent by the Union of University Liberal Societies on campaigns in the constituencies.

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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 : Eastbourne

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Charles Taylor is 39 and has been M.P. for Eastbourne since 1935. He is a director of various companies. President of the Residential Hotels Association of Great Britain until 1948, he then became vice-chairman of the council of the British Hotels and Restaurants Association. He was in the Territorial Army before the war and from 1939-42 served in regimental and staff appointments.

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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 : Horsham

CANDIDATE : Nicholls

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. R. Nicholls was born at Worthing in 1904, worked as a chauffeur for 20 years and later as an insurance agent. Until recently he was a departmental manager at Little-hampton. A member of the Labour Party for 25 years he has held many offices in the local organization.

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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 : Warwick and Leamington

CANDIDATE : Eden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony Eden, deputy Leader of the Opposition, was at 39 the youngest Foreign Secretary for over a century. He attained the office in 1935, but resigned in 1938 because of disagreement with the then,Premier, ?r. Neville Chamberlain, over relations with Italy. Born in 1897, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1923, and three years later began his long association with foreign affairs when he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Austen Chamberlain, then Foreign Secretary. In 1931 he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in 1934 Lord Privy Seal, becoming Minister for League of Nations Affairs in 1935. Following the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare in 1935 over the Abyssinian question, Mr. Eden was appointed Foreign Secretary. After his resignation in 1938 he was out of office until September, 1939, when he re-entered the Cabinet as Dominions Secretary. In Mr. Churchill’s war-time Government he was first Secretary of State for War, and on Lord Halifax’s appointment as British Ambassador in Washington in 1940, Mr. Eden returned to the Foreign Office, where he remained until 1945. Mr. Eden led the British delegation to the San Francisco Conference which drew up the United Nations Charter. He recently made an extensive tour of th<£ Commonwealth.

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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 : Westbury

CANDIDATE : Grimston

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Robert Grimston, M.P. f?r Westbury since 1931, was Assistant Postmaster-General in 1942 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply in 1945, and has also held several junior Government positions. He is president of the Urban District Councils Association. Born in 1897, he was educated at Repton, City and Guilds Engineering College, and London University. He served in Salonika and Palestine in the first world war.

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