CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Berwickshire and East Lothian
CANDIDATE : Stodart
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. A. Stodart, aged 33, was educated at Wellington College, started farming at the age of 18, and has made a study of the economics of arable farming. He is vice-chairman of the Scottish Liberal Party.
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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 : Fife West
CANDIDATE : Fraser
PARTY : Nat. L. & C.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. W. N. Fraser was born in 1917, and is managing director of an Edinburgh printers and book publishers. He is a former hon. sec. of the Scottish 1946 Club, and thus became connected with political work. During the war he served in the ranks with the Royal Corps of Signals, and was then commissioned in the R.A.O.C. He attained the rank of major.
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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 : Lanark
CANDIDATE : Dunglass
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Lord Dunglass, heir to the Earl of Home, lost his seat to Mr. Steele in 1945 after holding it since 1931. In the ” caretaker ” Government he was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and has been Parliamentary private secretary to several Ministers, including the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain. He has close family ties with the division and is a former president of the Scottish Unionist Association.
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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 : Moray and Nairnshire
CANDIDATE : Murray
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. Murray is the son of a fisherman, and was educated at Buckie High School, the Theological College, Selly Oak, Birmingham, and Ruskin College, Oxford. He was formerly employed on the Glen Affric Hydro-Electric Scheme, and later was in the Post Office and in the Department of Agriculture for Scotland. During the war he served in the Intelligence Corps in North Africa and Italy. He is 30.
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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 : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire
CANDIDATE : Scott
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lord William Scott, who was born in 1896, is the second son of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the Army as a career. While serving with a cavalry regiment in the 1914-18 war he was awarded the M.C., and in the last war he was military secretary to Field-Marshal Lord Alexander. He was elected M.P. for Roxburgh and Selkirk in 1935.
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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 : Bermondsey
CANDIDATE : Talbot
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss B. E. Talbot did much work with Red Cross and refugee organizations in Belgium, Italy, Turkey, and Russia during and after the 1914-18 war. Later she campaigned energetically for improvements in the conditions of merchant seamen and to gain first-hand experience served before the mast in a ” windjammer.” Also promoted the cooperative cultivation of waste ground and organized sports camps for blind soldiers from St. Dunstan’s.
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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 : Cities of London and Westminster
CANDIDATE : Curthoys
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Curthoys, aged 42, is the chairman of the Chelsea Divisional Labour Party and a member of the borough council. He is a producer of documentary films, and during the war produced 400 film-strips for the War Office. He also directed the documentary film Great Adventure, which the National Film Association presented to the Labour Party.
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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 : Hackney South
CANDIDATE : Butler
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. W. Butler: was elected for South Hackney in 1945. He is a former mayor of the borough, and has been a member of the council since 1928 ; he is chairman of the housing committee, and has also been leader of the council. Aged 51, he is a company director, and vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations.
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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 : Holborn and St Pancras South
CANDIDATE : Chapman-Walker
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. J. F. Chapman-Walker was born in 1907, educated at Marlborough and the Sor-bonne, and was admitted a solicitor in 1930. He practises in London, and farms 200 acres at Ware in Hertfordshire. Mr. Chapman-Walker has travelled extensively in India, Australia, and the Far East. He served in the war in 1 he Hertfordshire Regiment, commanding an ^nglo-Australian force in the South-West Pacific.
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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 : Kensington South
CANDIDATE : Spens
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir Patrick Spens, K.C., born in 1885, was M.P. for Ashford from 1,933 to 1943. He took silk in 1925 and was Master of the Bench, Inner Temple, 1934. He was Chief Justice of India from 1943 to 1947, and in 1947-48 was chairman ot the arbitration tribunal to settle partition disputes between India and Pakistan. He is a director pi assurance and banking companies. He was knighted in 1943 and created K.B.E. in 1948.
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