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 East

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Alfred Edwards was born in Middlesbrough 62 years ago. From an elementary school he entered industry as a boy, and while still a young man assumed control of the business. He is now a director of an old-established local ironworks, and is connected with many other enterprises. After serving on the town council, he won East Middlesbrough as a Labour candidate by a narrow majority i? 1935 and held the seat comfortably in 1945. His opposition to the Iron and Steel Act led to his expulsion from the Labour Party and later acceptance of the Conservative 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 : Newcastle upon Tyne East

CANDIDATE : Blenkinsop

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Blenkinsop, before he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions. Born in 1911, he was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle on Tyne, and the College of Commerce, and when later he was employed by a colliery firm he lectured in his spare time for the W.E.A. During the war he joined The Durham Light Infantry, and was transferred to the Army Education Corps, being promoted to captain.

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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 : Norwich South

CANDIDATE : Tylecote

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. P. Tylecote has been a member of the Labour Party for 31 years. She is a lecturer and teacher and in 1932 married Professor F. E. Tylecote, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of Manchester. In 1940 she was elected to the Manchester City Council. In 1945 she unsuccessfully contested Middle-ton and Prestwich. She is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. From 1919 to 1920 she was a student and teacher at the University of Wisconsin, United States.

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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 : Oldbury and Halesowen

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. R. K. Brown, a barrister practising on the Midland Circuit, was born in Calcutta in 1909. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and gained distinction both in legal scholarships and athletics. He was British hurdles champion in 1934. During the war he served with the 53rd Infantry Division and at Field-Marshal Montgomery’s headquarters. President of the Birmingham Liberal organization, he contested Stourbridge in 1945.

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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 : Plymouth Sutton

CANDIDATE : Astor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. J. Astor, is the youngest son of Viscount Astor. Aged 31, and educated at Eton and Oxford, Mr. Astor joined the Life Guards Supplementary Reserve in 1939 and served as a major in the Commandos at Dieppe and with airborne forces in Italy, France, Germany, and Norway, being awarded the Legion d’Honneur and the Croix de Guerre by the French. In 1949 he became secretary to Mr. R. A. Butler and was secretary to the British delegation at the Commonwealth Conference in Canada.

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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 North

CANDIDATE : Segal

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. S. Segal, who won Preston i? 1945, had to conduct the early stages of his campaign in the present election from a bed in the Preston Royal Infirmary, where he was being treated for a spinal complaint. Born in 1902, he is a physician and surgeon in London. During the war he was an officer in the R.A.F. medical service in the Middle East, and later chief medical officer of the Naval Cooperation Group, R.A.F., Cairo.

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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 : Richmond

CANDIDATE : Ennals

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. H. Ennals was born in 1922 in Walsall and was a journalist. After service in the war, in which he was wounded and taken prisoner in the Normandy campaign, he became N.W. regional officer for the United Nations Association, and in 1947 was appointed secretary of the Council for Education in World Citizenship.

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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 : Rowley Regis and Tipton

CANDIDATE : Barnes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. B. J. Barnes is a garage proprietor. He was born in 1909 and served as a quartermaster in the Army in the early days of the war. He went through the Dunkirk evacuation, and in the Middle East in 1942 was commissioned and became a major. Before the war he was a journalist in the Midlands, and now owns a transport business in Black-heath.

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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 Brightside

CANDIDATE : Winterbottom

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Winterbottom is 50, and was born at Oldham, where he began work in the Co-operative Society’s grocery store. Then he took up trade union and political work, becoming liaison officer between the Co-operative and Labour Parties. In 1944 he became national organizer of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers. Chairman of Oldham Repertory Theatre, he is a W.E.A. lecturer.

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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 Park

CANDIDATE : Fullard

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Fullard, who joined the Communist Party in 1939, was formerly a miner, and served during the war in the infantry and the Tank Corps, in India and the Far East.

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