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 : Wednesbury

CANDIDATE : Bowker

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Bowker was educated at Birmingham and London universities, and practised as a land agent in the west Midlands. In the war he served with Intelligence and other military branches. Aged 36, he is a former chairman of the Worcestershire Liberal Federation.

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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 : West Ham South

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Elwyn Jones, Parliamentary private secretary to the Attorney-General in the last Parliament is a barrister. Born on October 24, 1909, he was at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Gon-ville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He was assistant British prosecutor at Nuremberg war trials and at the Hamburg trial of Marshal von Manstein. He has been M.P. for Plaistow since 1945.

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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 : Wolverhampton North East

CANDIDATE : Baird

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Baird won East Wolverhampton from the Liberals in 1945. Soil of a miner, he is a dental surgeon, having studied at Glasgow University and St. Mungo’s Medical College. During the 1939-45 war he served with the Army Dental Corps, in which he was a captain. Born in 1906, he joined the Labour Party in 1930, and for many years has been active in local government work.

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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 : Worthing

CANDIDATE : Home

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Horne, an outfitter at Haywards Heath, is 51. He makes a hobby of mechanics and has several inventions to his credit including an electro-magnetic motor-car lock.

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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 : Abingdon

CANDIDATE : Glyn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Ralph Glyn has sat continuously for Abingdon since 1924. During the National Government of 1931 he was joint Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald. He was created a baronet in 1934. Born in 1886, he joined The Rifle Brigade in 1904 after being educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. He contested two by-elections in 1910, and was returned for Clackmannan and E. Stirling in 1918, serving for four 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 : Buckingham

CANDIDATE : Crawley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aidan Crawley, who won the first Labour victory in the division in 1945, was formerly a journalist and producer of educational films, and is married to Virginia Cowles, the American authoress. He was for a time Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was a delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg. Born in 1908, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, and has played cricket for Harrow, Oxford University and Kent.

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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 : Chester

CANDIDATE : Nield

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Nield, K.C., entered Parliament for Chester in 1940 at a by-election. He graduated from Oxford, was called to the Bar in 1925 and took silk after 1 the war, in which he served with the Judge Advocate’s Department at home and in the Middle East. Born in 1903, Mr. Nield is a bachelor.

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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 : Runcorn

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Griffiths, who is 42, is in the corn milling and road transport business. A member of the Market Drayton Urban Council, he also serves on the Shropshire County Council. He comes from a farming family and has had close experience of the agricultural industry.

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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 : Cornwall North

CANDIDATE : Richardson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. L. Richardson was born near Salisbury 34 years ago, and now lives in Penzance. He is senior radiographer at the West Cornwall Hospital. He joined the Penzance Borough Council in 1946, and is a member of the executive committee of the South West Regional Council of the Labour Party and of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

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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 : Belper

CANDIDATE : Argyle

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. V. Argyle, a barrister on the Midland Circuit, and 34 years of age, was educated at Westminster and Cambridge. He served eight years in the Army, becoming adjutant of the 7th Queen’s Own Hussars, with whom he won the M.C. in Italy. After the war he was D.A.Q.M.G. Bermuda, and later was attached to the Judge Advocate General’s staff at the War Office.

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