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 : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Griffiths was Minister of National Insurance in the last Government. He entered Parliament at a by-election in 1936 for Llanelly, and has retained the seat ever since. Born in 1890, he first worked in the coal mines,?went to the National Labour College in London, and in 1924 became miners’ agent under the South Wales Miners’ Federation and later was president of the Association. He is a former chairman of the executive of the 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 : Aberavon

CANDIDATE : Cove

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. Cove first entered Parliament as member for Welling-borough in 1924 and has represented Aberavon since 1929. After working underground as a miner for five or six years, studying in the evenings, he qualified as a teacher and later went to college. He is an ex-president of the National Union of Teachers. After the 1914-18 war he was the first president of the Discharged Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Association. He is chairman of the Welsh Labour Parliamentary group.

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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 : Ogmore

CANDIDATE : Llewellyn

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Llewellyn, daughter of a disabled Welsh miner, is a teacher who has spent all her life in the Nantymoel district. During the war she was chairman of the local evacuation committee and since 1897 has served on the Ogmore and Garw Urban District Council, and worked energetically to bring new industries to mid-Glamorganshire.

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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 : Monmouth

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. F. Thomas, 29, became education officer for Imperial Chemical Industries at Billingham and is assistant organizer for further education under the Glamorgan County Council.

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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 : Coatbridge and Airdrie

CANDIDATE : Mann

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Jean Mann was elected for Coatbridge in 1945. She has been closely associated with housing reform, and was housing convenor of Glasgow Corporation. | She is vice-president of the Scottish Housing and Town Planning Council and organizing secretary of the Town and Country Planning Association. She served on the housing advisory council set up by the Secretary of State. Aged 50, she has been senior magistrate of Glasgow.

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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 : Edinburgh East

CANDIDATE : Wheatley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Wheatley, K.C., the Lord Advocate, entered the House in 1947 when Mr. G. R. Thomson, then Lord Advocate, went to the Scottish Bench. First appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland, he became Lord Advocate a few months later. He was born in 1908, and is a nephew of the late Mr. John Wheatley. Minister of Health in the first Labour Government. Educated at St. Aloysius College, Glasgow, Mount St. Mary’s College, Chesterfield, and Glasgow University, he was called to the Scottish Bar, 1932, appointed an advocate-depute, 1945, and K.C., 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 : Edinburgh West

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Morgan an insurance agent, aged 41, has been active in Co-operative and trade union circles for many years. He is chairman of East of Scotland Council of Co-operative Societies, and has been secretary of the West Lothian Divisional Labour Party and vice-chairman of West Lothian Trades Council.

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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 : Glasgow Gorbals

CANDIDATE : McGuinness

PARTY : Irish Anti-Partitionist

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McGuinness is a former vice-president and treasurer of the Labour Party in Gorbals, but left the Party in May last when the Ireland Act was passed. He stood for ” Ireland United and Scotland Free.”

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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 : Glasgow Pollok

CANDIDATE : Galbraith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. T. D. Galbraith, who was joint Under-Secretary for Scotland in 1945, was elected in 1940. Born in 1891, he was educated at Glasgow University and the R.N. Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, served in the 1914-18 war and at the R.N. Staff College, Greenwich, retiring in 1922. In the last war he was on the staff of the Scottish naval command. He is a partner in a Glasgow firm of accountants, and was a member of Glasgow Corporation for seven 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 : Glasgow Tradeston

CANDIDATE : Hart

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Hart, an engineer’s agent in Glasgow, has long been associated with the Conservative Party and has held office in local associations of the Western divisional council of the Scottish Unionist Association. He has been a member of Glasgow Corporation for two years.

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