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 : Widnes

CANDIDATE : MacColl

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. MacColl is a barrister born in 1908 and educated at Sedbergh and Balliol College. Oxford. He took a fellowship in Economics at Chicago University, and, returning to England was called to the Bar, practising on the North-Eastern Circuit until 1939. He served in the civil defence organization in London during the war. He was elected to Paddington Borough Council in 1934, was mayor in 1947-49, and for 10 years served on the L.C.C. education committee. He is a member of the Hemel Hempstead New Town Development Corporation, and has broadcast on local government and town planning.

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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 : Holland with Boston

CANDIDATE : Blankley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. D. Blankley, director of a packing company, was born in 1924. During the war he served in the R.A.F. for a year and later in civil defence. He is a member of the Royal Observer Corps. A Nottingham resident, he represents Central Nottingham on the East Midlands Liberal Federation executive.

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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 : Louth (Borough)

CANDIDATE : Dyer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. H. Dyer is a member of an old Liberal family and one of his brothers contested a Nottinghamshire seat as a Liberal. He is head master of a school at Alford, and has taken an active part in local government in the district, and was for two years chairman of the urban district council, of which he is a member.

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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 : Norfolk North

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Jones, a member of the Society of Friends, was born in Liverpool 59 years ago. He has spent most of his life in the Far East, his last post being chief manager of the Siamese Government Bank in Bangkok. He moved to Norfolk ]2 years ago and became chairman of the North Norfolk Libeial Association.

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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 : Peterborough

CANDIDATE : Akst

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. I. Akst, an accountant practising in London and the eastern counties, was born in 1903 and educated at Shoreham Grammar School. He is actively associated with Hunts Liberal Association and Eastern Counties 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 : Bassetlaw

CANDIDATE : Dyer

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. E. Dyer has served on the Lough-borough Town Council, and is leader of the Liberal group on Nottingham City Council. Formerly connected with a road transport organization, he conducted the East Midlands campaign against the Transport Bill. He is senior regional executive officer of the East Midlands area of the National Road Transport Federation. He has been chairman of Nottingham Liberal Federation since 1946, and is a Congregational lay preacher.

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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 : Banbury

CANDIDATE : Dodds-Parker

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. D. Dodds-Parker is 41, and was first elected for Banbury in 1945. Educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Sudan Political Service from 1930 to 1938. Joining the Grenadier Guards in 1939, he served during the war in East Africa, North Africa, Italy, and France, and reached the rank of colonel in 1944. He holds two French decorations. In 1946 he was appointed chairman of the British Empire Producers’ Association.

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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 : Bridgwater

CANDIDATE : Carr

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. E. Carr, aged 37, and an audit clerk, was educated at London University. He served with the R.A.F. in the war. He is hon. secretary of the Billericay (Essex) divisional Labour Party and chairman of the Billericay divisional Co-operative Party, and in 1949 was chairman of the London Joint Co-operative 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 : Yeovil

CANDIDATE : MacLaren

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. MacLaren is a son of Mr. Andrew MacLaren, who for more than 20 years sat in Parliament for the Burslem division. Born in 1910, he was called to the Bar in 1938, and became principal of the School of Economic Science, London. He resigned from the Labour Party after the Blackpool conference in 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 : Bury St Edmunds

CANDIDATE : McCall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss C. McCall is 49 and the daughter of the late Sir Robert McCall, K..C. First woman in Britain trained as a psychiatric social worker, she holds hospital appointments. She has worked in prisons and Borstal institutions, and wrote a book on women’s prisons. Miss McCall has also been educational organizer to the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. She fought the seat in 1945.

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