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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Wythenshawe Constituency – Biography of Dean

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Wythenshawe Constituency – Biography of Dean

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Wythenshawe

    CANDIDATE : Dean

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss F. Dean is 32, and for many years was secretary of the Manchester Equitable branch of the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, and its delegate to the Manchester and Salford Trades Council, of which she was recently a vice-president. For the past three years she has been a delegate to the T.U.C. She is on the national executive of the Lancashire and district committee of the Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle-under-Lyme Constituency – Biography of Mack

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle-under-Lyme Constituency – Biography of Mack

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle-under-Lyme

    CANDIDATE : Mack

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. D. Mack, born in Liverpool 50 years ago of working-class parents, spent some years in Leeds, and then returning to Liverpool was elected to the City Council in 1928 and remained a member for 18 years. He was returned unopposed at Newcastle under Lyme in 1942 on the elevation to the peerage of the late Lord Wedgwood. A former insurance agent, he is national leader of the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northampton Constituency – Biography of Alloway

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northampton Constituency – Biography of Alloway

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northampton

    CANDIDATE : Alloway

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. H. Alloway, 55 years of age, worked for many years in a large industrial organization and is responsible for the industrial management course in a college of technology and commerce at Leicester, and is also a farmer. He lost a leg.in Flanders in the 1914-18 war and is treasurer of a branch of the British Legion, a churchwarden, and school manager.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham South Constituency – Biography of Smith

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham South Constituency – Biography of Smith

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham South

    CANDIDATE : Smith

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Norman Smith, member for the division since 1945, had previously contested Faver-sham, Kent, in 1931 and 1935. Born in 1890 and educated at Swin-don College, he became an author and journalist, and has been identified with monetary reform movements since 1946. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in the 1914-18 war. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation from the Estimates Committee which visited Germany and Austria.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oxford Constituency – Biography of Keeling

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oxford Constituency – Biography of Keeling

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oxford

    CANDIDATE : Keeling

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Keeling, aged 35, works in a motorcar factory and took a leading part in the pressed steel strike in Oxford in 1934. He has since led many industrial disputes and housing campaigns, and is district secretary of the South Midlands Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Portsmouth South Constituency – Biography of Merrion

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Portsmouth South Constituency – Biography of Merrion

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Portsmouth South

    CANDIDATE : Merrion

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. C. Merrion, aged 46, and educated at elementary schools and evening classes, has been a member of the Labour Party 25 years and held most local offices, besides being a technical lecturer at Labour colleges. Has been on Enfield council and chairman of the Housing Committee, and is a member of Enfield Industrial Executive Committee and the Health Act Tribunal. He is an authority on building trade matters and has several times broadcast on industrial and political subjects.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reading South Constituency – Biography of Opperman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reading South Constituency – Biography of Opperman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Reading South

    CANDIDATE : Opperman

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. L. Opperman, aged 44, is an engineer with a business in Newbury, and a member of the Committee for Business Training set up by the Ministry of Labour. He has served on various local bodies and held an honorary commission in the R.A.F.V.R.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rossendale Constituency – Biography of Tomlinson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rossendale Constituency – Biography of Tomlinson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rossendale

    CANDIDATE : Tomlinson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. L. M. Tomlinson, first woman to contest Rossendale, is a Manchester housewife. She is chairman of Urmston Women’s Liberals Association and on the executive of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North-West Liberal Federatio?.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salford West Constituency – Biography of Royle

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salford West Constituency – Biography of Royle

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Salford West

    CANDIDATE : Royle

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Royle, who was born in 1899, was educated at Stockport Grammar School. He was a master butcher for many years, and is an ex-president of the Manchester and Salford Butchers’ Association and executive member of other meat trade organizations, but he resigned from the National “”*? *?* Federation after there was criticism of the nationalization threat. He was on the Stockport Borough Council from 1928 to 1935, and has been chairman of the Stockport Trades and Labour Council. He was first elected to Parliament in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Hillsborough Constituency – Biography of Bennett

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Hillsborough Constituency – Biography of Bennett

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Hillsborough

    CANDIDATE : Bennett

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. Bennett is 36. Called up early in the war, he was discharged in 1941. He is a former general secretary of the Young Communist League, and since 1945 has been the party’s Yorkshire district secretary and member of the national executive. He has visited Czechoslovakia and the United States.

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