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 : Woolwich East

CANDIDATE : Hancock

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Hancock, aged 66, fougnt the election as an Independent Pacifist. He is a Quaker, and he retired from business some years ago to engage in peace and Labour propaganda. He has unsuccessfully fought five Parliamentary elections as a Labour candidate. He has lived in the East End of London for 40 years.

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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 : Ashton-under-Lyne

CANDIDATE : Blackwell

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. H. Blackwell, aged 30, a clerk, is secretary of the Ashton branch of the Communist Party. He served as a sergeant in North Africa and Italy in the late 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 : Bebington

CANDIDATE : Soskice

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Frank Soskice, K.C., who was elected “J 1^45 as member for the old Birkenhead East WSion’ Was Solicitor-General throughout the ~” l aniament. He was born in 1902, and is p S^at-grandson of the pre-Raphaelite painter u™ Madox-Brown. During the war he joined The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served in East Africa and the Middle East. He was educated at St. Paul’s School and Balliol, where he held an open classical scholarship ; was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1926, and became a K..C. in 1945 and a Privy Councillor in 1947.

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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 : Birmingham Aston

CANDIDATE : Doughty

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr C. Doughty, son of Sir Charles uoughty, K.C., is a barrister and practises at the Common Law Bar. Born in 1902, he was ?n?cated at Eton and Oxford. Enlisting in WO in The Coldstream Guards, he served in North Africa and Italy, and was demobilized with the rank of major. He is a keen student OI Politics and social conditions.

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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 : Birmingham King’s Norton

CANDIDATE : Lloyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, born in 1902, was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was president of the Cambridge Union in 1924. He entered Parliament in 1931 for the Ladywood division, and after being Parliamentary private secretary to Lord Baldwin when he was Prime Minister, he became Under-Secretary to the Home Office from 1935 to 1939. He was Secretary for Mines, 1939-40, and Minister in charge of the Petroleum Warfare Department, 1940-45 ; and Minister of Information in the ” Caretaker ” Government. He was defeated at the 1945 election. He is president of the Birmingham Unionist Association and has been a governor of the B.B.C. since 1946. He was made a member of the the Privy Council 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 : Birmingham Stechford

CANDIDATE : Jenkins

PARTY : Lab

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Jenkins entered Parliament in 1948 for Central South-wark, a seat which disappeared under the redistribution. Aged 30, he is a son of a former M.P. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and was later engaged on intelligence work. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was secretary and librarian of the Oxford Union, He has written a biography of Mr. Attlee.

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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 : Blackpool South

CANDIDATE : Woodward

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. H. Woodward is aged 34 and is managing director of a Trust company in London and Manchester, and is also director of several companies controlling engineering, coal, and publishing. Educated at Bedford School, he is a son of Canon A. L. Woodward. During the war he was commissioned in the R.A.F. He is a freeman of the City of 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 : Bournemouth West

CANDIDATE : Boddy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Boddy, a master at Poole Grammar School, was born in 1916. At Cambridge he was a member of the University Socialist Club. As an officer of the Royal Corps of Signals during the war he served in Assam, Bengal, and the N.W. Frontier, becoming a lieutenant-colonel and staff officer at 14th Army G.H.Q. He also undertook a special mission to China.

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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 : Brentford and Chiswick

CANDIDATE : Noel-Baker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Francis E. Noel-Baker, who is 30 and the son of Mr. P. J. Noel-Baker, a Minister in the last Government, was the youngest Labour M.P. when he won the seat in 1945. Educated at Westminster School and Cambridge, he joined the Fabian Society and was chairman of the Labour Club at Cambridge. He joined the Tank Corps as a private in 1940 and became intelligence officer in the Middle East with temporary rank of major. Journalist and author of books on Greece and Spain, he speaks and writes Greek.

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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 : Bristol North East

CANDIDATE : Woodcock

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss I. Woodcock, daughter of a retired county court judge, was born in 1895 and educated at Frognal School, Hampstead, and Paris. She is chairman of the Women’s Institute Markets, Limited, for Gloucestershire, and a voluntary county organizer for the W.I. movement. A past president of Cheltenham Liberal Association and of the Women’s Liberal Association.

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