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 : Gainsborough

CANDIDATE : Spence

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. I. Spence, K.C., a barrister, aged 47 and 6ft. 7in. tall, was in the last great diamond rush in South Africa, and afterwards worked a passage to Canada as a cabin steward and hitch-hiked across the Dominion. He served on Air Marshal Cqnyngham’s staff in the Western Desert during the war, and after demobilization took silk. He 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 : King’s Lynn

CANDIDATE : Scott-Miller

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. R. Scott-Miller, born in 1904, and a director of an old-established firm of police clothing contractors, served for 25 years in the R.N.V.R. He took part with Combined Operations in the Mediterranean and Northwest European landings, gained the United States Legion of Merit, Salerno, 1943, and was mentioned in dispatches in 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 : Kettering

CANDIDATE : Morrow

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. T. Morrow, 37 years old, is the senior partner in an accountancy firm and chairman of the Liberal Association for the Henley Division. During the war he undertook considerable work for Unrra and the International Refugee 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 : Morpeth

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Taylor was first elected for Morpeth in 1935. He is 68 years of age, and is a miner. He has been a member of Blyth Borough Council and Northumberland County Council. In the war-time National Government he acted as Labour Whip, and in 1945 he was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Deputy Chief Whip.

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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 : Newark-on-Trent

CANDIDATE : Pickering

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. H. Pickering is a former Liberal M.P. for West Leicester, and previously had an educational post in Japan. He returned to Japan and when war broke out he was imprisoned by the Japanese. Since his return to England in 1946 he has been teaching, latterly at Coalville Mining College.

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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 : Elliott

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. N. W. Elliott, a china manufacturer of Stoke-on-Trent, is a member of the council of the Liberal Party and contested Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1945. He was educated at Tettenhall College and Birmingham University. He was mentioned in dispatches in the 1914-18 war, and in the last war was, first, colonel in the M.I. branch, and later in charge of the 16th Staffs Home Guard.

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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 : Weston-super-Mare

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. H. Hill, a 36-year-old London barrister, is chairman of the Guild of Insurance Officials and a former chairman of Beckenham Labour Party.

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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 : Stafford and Stone

CANDIDATE : Fraser

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. C. P. Fraser is a son of the 14th Lord Lovat, and is 32. He was educated at the Sorbonne University, Paris, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in history. He was president of the Union while at Oxford. Having served with the Lovat Scouts—raised by his father—in the last war, in 1945 he entered Parliament for the Stone division.

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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 : Carshalton

CANDIDATE : Head

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. A. H. Head was born in 1906 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Entering the Army as a career, he first joined the 15/] 9th Hussars and later transferred to The Life Guards. He served throughout the last war, being Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, then on the staff of the Chief of Combined Operations, and later representative with the Director of Plans for Amphibious Operations. He entered Parliament in 1945 and is chairman of the Conservative Party’s subcommittee on the Army.

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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 : Esher

CANDIDATE : Chipchase

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. E. B. Chipchase, born in 1916, is a clerk in the Development and Research Office of the London Transport Executive. Since 193? she has been a member of the Railway Clerks’ Association and is the secretary of the Westminster branch. She joined the Labour Party in 1941, and was formerly a member of the T.U.C. Women’s Advisory Committee.

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