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 : 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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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 : Southend West

CANDIDATE : Channon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Channon was elected for Southend in 1935, when he succeeded Lady Iveagh, his mother-in-law. From 1938 to 1941 he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. R. A. Butler when Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and during the war went abroad on several missions. A director of a brewing firm, he is aged 50.

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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 : Stockport South

CANDIDATE : Gridley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Arnold Gridley, born in 1878, has represented Stockport since 1935. Manager of an electric lighting and tramways company at the age of 22, he has a wide experience in electricity supply and was electricity controller for the Ministry of Munitions in 1916. He is chairman of a group of electricity manufacturing and other companies. He was President of the British Association of Chambers of Commerce, 1946-48.

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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 : Sunderland North

CANDIDATE : Willey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. T. Wil?ey, elected for Sunderland in 1945, was born in 1910, educated at Cambridge, called to the Bar in 1936, and was for a time a barrister on the Northern Circuit. During the war he served with the A.F.S. in East London, and was London regional officer of the Fire Brigades Union. He became Parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary in 1946. He is a director of the North East Trading Estates, Limited.

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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 : Tottenham

CANDIDATE : Messer

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Messer was born in 1886, and by trade is a french polisher. He is a member of the Middlesex County Council, of which he was chairman in 1947-48; chairman of the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, and of the Central Health Services Council; and also chairman of the Ministry of Labour Advisory Committee on handicapped children. Entering Parliament in 1929 as M.P. for South Tottenham, he was defeated in 1931, but regained the constituency in 1935.

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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 : Wallsend

CANDIDATE : McKay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. McKay, who represented the division in the last Parliament, worked in the pits from the age of 12. He was sent by the Northumberland miners to Ruskin College, Oxford, and on returning to the mines became a checkweighman and a member of the executive committee of the Northumberland Miners’ Union. He served for a time on the Newcastle City 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 : Watford

CANDIDATE : Freeman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Freeman, who was appointed in 1947 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, captured Watford from the Conservatives at the 1945 election. Born in 1915, he was educated at Westminster School, and Brasenose College, Oxford, and until 1940 was an advertising consultant. He saw much active service during the last war. Soon after entering Parliament he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for War. Subsequently he was Under-Secretary of State for War.

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