Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Thirsk and Malton

CANDIDATE : Aldam

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Aldam is 60, and was educated at Ta?caster Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford. He is a former lecturer in economics, and up to 1946 was a headquarters inspector of the L.N.E.R. A specialist on transport problems and trade union matters, he is one of the founders of the trade union movement among agricultural workers.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hemsworth

CANDIDATE : Asquith

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss J. Asquith, aged 30, took an economics degree at Oxford, where she was secretary of the University Conservative Association. She served in the A.T.S. in the war and received a commission.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Skipton

CANDIDATE : Greenwood

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. Greenwood was born at Dews-bury in 1910 and is a barrister practising on the North-Eastern circuit. During the early part of his career he qualified as an incorporated accountant. He is a director of several Dews-bury firms as well as of a Bradford woollen manufacturing concern. He is a keen musician.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Merthyr Tydfil

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. O. Davies has been Labour M.P. for Merthyr since 1934, and was a miner when he took a B.A. degree at the University of Wales. Later he was a check-weighman, miners’ agent at Dowlais, and a member for nine years of the Miners’ Federation executive. He is also a former vice-president of the South Wales Miners’ Federation. A tnember of Merthyr Corporation until he resigned last year, he was mayor in 1946-47.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Swansea West

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Lewis Jones was member for the division from 1931 until his defeat in 1945. He has been secretary of the South Wales Siemens Steel Association, and represented Wales on the National Health Insurance Joint Committee.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cardiganshire

CANDIDATE : Little

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. G. S. R. Little, 42, qualified as a doctor in 1930, having trained at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. For 14 years he practised at Worksop, Notts, but early in 1947 he gave up medical practice and took up farming near Cardigan. During the war he took an active part in A.R.P. and was acting medical officer of health.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Flintshire West

CANDIDATE : Birch

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Nigel Birch, elected for the Flintshire division in 1945, was born in 1906 and educated at Eton. He was in business until 1939, and served throughout the war on the •General Staff, being promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1944. Since entering Parliament he has specialized in financial subjects and has toured western Germany and Africa.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Neath

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Thomas, West Wales organizer of the Communist Party, went to America in 1912 when he was five, and was educated there and in Canada. Returning in 1924, he took an engineering course at Swansea University. While working in the mines, he won a scholarship to London Labour College, and was one of nine expelled for their political views. ?e joined the Communists and oiganized three ” hunger ” marches to London.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ebbw Vale

CANDIDATE : Bevan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, has sat in Parliament for the Ebbw Vale division since 1929. He was born in Tredegar in 1897 and started work in the Tredegar collieries at an early age. Prominent in trade union affairs, he was soon on the executive of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, gained a seat on the county council, and in 1921 was a leader of demonstrations of unemployed seeking assistance from the local Poor Law authorities. During the war he became conspicuous for his criticisms of the Coalition Government. His appointment as Minister of Health when the last Government took office was his first Government post.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Tweedsmuir

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Tweedsmuir was unsuccessful in North Aberdeen in the 1945 election, but a year later won this constituency in a by-election. Her first husband, Sir Arthur Grant, was killed in action with the Grenadier Guards in Normandy, and she married Lord Tweedsmuir in 1948. Born in 1915, Lady Tweedsmuir was educated in England, Germany, and France. She is a governor of the British Film Institute.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html