CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fulham East
CANDIDATE : Jacoby
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Jacoby, born in 1887, is a retired io!t manager- He was commissioned in the 1*14-18 war and won the M.C. In the last war he served in the Home Guard and was commander of the Hyde Park Defences.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith South
CANDIDATE : Williams
PARTY : Co-op and Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. T. Williams, who won the seat at a by-election in 1949, was born in 1915, the son of a South Wa?es minair. He gained scholarships to the University of Wales, and is M.A.(Oxon), B.D.(Wales), and Ll.B. (London). He is a Baptist minister, and has been bursar, and tutor at Manchester College, Oxford, and chaplain and welfare officer at a camp for returned R.A.F. war prisoners.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington South West
CANDIDATE : Evans
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. Evans was elected member for West Islington in a by-election in 1947. Born in 1903, he became a master engraver and has been a member of the Goldsmiths’, Jewellers’ and Allied Trades Society since 1925. He has served on the Islington Borough Council and the London County Council, and has taken a special interest in questions affecting local government and trade and industry.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Norwood
CANDIDATE : Fredericke
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. Fredericke, aged 26, is a free lance journalist and an art expert and picture dealer. He resigned from the Conservative Party after the 1949 Conference, and is a member of the executive of the Chelsea Liberal Association. He served with the R.A.F. during the war as an air crew cadet.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington North
CANDIDATE : Turner
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Lawrence Turner is 42 and was educated at Radley College. He is managing director of a trust company, and director of a family paint business. During the war he served in the ranks and was later commissioned. After being captured in Siam he lectured on politics to prisoners of war.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Pancras North
CANDIDATE : Whitton
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. W. C. Whitton, a senior partner in a London firm of solicitors, was born 34 years ago in Highgate. He was educated at Highgate School and London University. During the war he became a troop commander in a regiment of field artillery, serving in North-West Lurope, and was awarded the Military Cross. He is interested in youth work and is chairman of the Management Committee of the Aldenham Boys’ Club, Highgate.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke Newington and Hackney North
CANDIDATE : Hargrave
PARTY : Soc. Credit
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Hargrave, founder-leader of the Social Credit Party of Great Britain, is 55, and was educated at Midhurst. He is an artist and writer. He is the author of 16 books, including a biography of the late Lord Norman, former Governor of the Bank of England. In 1936-37 he was economic adviser to the Aberhart Government of Alberta and drew up the social credit plans for the Plan-n]ng Committee of the Government.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich East
CANDIDATE : Sage
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. M. Sage, born in 1922 and educated at Kilburn Grammar School and London University, graduated in Metallurgy, 1943, and took an external degree at the university, 1946. He was afterwards engaged in the manufacture of metal components for aitcraft, and in the steel and non-ferrous metal industry. He has lectured at London technical colleges. He is keenly interested in social service, particularly youth work.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ashton-under-Lyne
CANDIDATE : Rhodes
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Rhodes contested the Royton division unsuccessfully at the »dst general election, but pi *. months later was elected for Ashton at a °y-election. He has been * member of the Parliamentary Textile Commit-£e and the trade and ndustry groups in Par-“dment, and accom- Parliamentary ndTS t0 Austr’a Afi-‘ Japan and an economic mission to a tT?:. Aged 54> he is managing director of tliencn ? In the 1914-18 war he won c u.kc and bar.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Batley and Morley
CANDIDATE : Bremner
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. W. Bremner is 34, and the wife of Mr. J. G. M. Bremner, of Stockton-on-Tees, one of the principal chemists of I.C.I, at Billingham, where she was for a time also employed. She JJ a member of the executive committee of the ^tockton Conservative Association. She was born in Batley, where her father owns a manufacturing chemist’s business, and went to Leeds University and Cambridge.
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