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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Myer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Myer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington South

    CANDIDATE : Myer

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Myer, a barrister specializing in commercial law, was born in 1907, and was educated at the Grocers’ Company School, London School of Economics, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He rowed for his college, and?his crew won its oars in the Lent races of 1927. During the war he was a squadron leader in the R.A.F.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Greenwood

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Greenwood

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southwark

    CANDIDATE : Greenwood

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Greenwood, born in 1902, began work as an assistant in a library, but took up advertising and is chairman and managing director of a Fleet Street advertising firm. He is connected with many local organizations, and is the founder of the Southwark Chamber of Commerce. He unsuccessfully contested South-east Southwark in 1945, and Central Southwark at a by-election in 1948.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Lowndes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Lowndes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Clapham

    CANDIDATE : Lowndes

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. L. Lowndes was born in New Zealand in 1911. He worked there as a schoolmaster and on irrigation and farm mechanization projects, and in 1936 became an insurance broker in London. He served in Egypt and Libya in 1940-41, and was captured by the Afrika Korps. He contested the constituency unsuccessfully in 1945. He is a partner in the family business.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich West Constituency – Biography of Roberts

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich West Constituency – Biography of Roberts

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich West

    CANDIDATE : Roberts

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. R. Roberts, aged 51, is chief inspector of the Pharmaceutical Society and a barrister. At Chislehurst he is secretary of the Liberal Association, and an active worker in the St. John Ambulance and Scout movements.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Willcock

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Willcock

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barking

    CANDIDATE : Willcock

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. H. Willcock was 54 on the eve of the election, and is general manager of a firm of cleaners. Before he left his native Yorkshire to come south he was for 20 years hon. secretary of the Horsforth Liberal Association. He is president of the Essex County Liberal Federation, and a member of the Home Counties Liberal Executive. He unsuccessfully contested Barking in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Beckenham Constituency – Biography of Bain

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Beckenham Constituency – Biography of Bain

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Beckenham

    CANDIDATE : Bain

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. A. Bain, a Scotsman, was in the 1945 election defeated by Mr. H. Macmillan in the Bromley division, which then included Becken-ham. He has served on the National Executive of the Society of Electro and Stereotypers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Erdington Constituency – Biography of Silverman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Erdington Constituency – Biography of Silverman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Erdington

    CANDIDATE : Silverman

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Julius Silverman, wno gained the seat from Air Cdr. Wright in 1945, was born in 1905, and nad an elementary and secondary education, rirst employed as a warehouseman, he later ltlor the Bar and was at Gray’s Inn in 1931. He practises in ngham. For 11 years until 1945 he was a rnem-Oer of the city council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Northfield Constituency – Biography of Blackburn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Northfield Constituency – Biography of Blackburn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Northfield

    CANDIDATE : Blackburn

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Raymond Blackburn, who was born in 1915, was educated at J^ugby, studied law at London University, and was awarded the Newton Irize of the Law Society. He served in the Army from 1939 to 1945, and was promoted to captain. He won the King’s Norton division from the Conservatives in 1945 with a 12,298 majority. He is a member of the Parliamentary Labour I’arty group on external affairs. In his Publications he has given a great deal of attention to the problems and rights of soldiers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Yardley Constituency – Biography of Usborne

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Yardley Constituency – Biography of Usborne

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Yardley

    CANDIDATE : Usborne

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. C. Usborne was M.P. for Acocks Green in the last Parliament. Aged 41, Mr. Usborne lived in the Punjab as a child, his father being in the Indian Civil Service. He gained an honours degree in engineering at Cambridge and in 1932 he started as an oil combustion engineer, founding a company of which he is now chairman. He is vice-president of the National Peace Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bolton East Constituency – Biography of Booth

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bolton East Constituency – Biography of Booth

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolton East

    CANDIDATE : Booth

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Booth was born on February 24, 1893, and started work as a half-timer. For 16 years he was a member of Bolton Town Council and has been mayor. He has taken a great interest in the work of the local Y.M.C.A., and is also chairman of t?e Bolton Savings Committee. He is a Methodist local preacher.

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