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 : Colne Valley

CANDIDATE : Leslie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. F. Leslie, 27, and a former chairman of the Liberal Society of Manchester University, served for six years in the Royal Air Force. He has been a member of the North-West Liberal Federation Executive. After the war he entered Manchester University where he took a first-class honours degree in English.

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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 : Penistone

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. F. Smith was born in 1920 and educated at Giggleswick School and in Sweden, where he studied the manufacture of steel, and is a steel wire manufacturer. During the war he served abroad in the Army and attained the rank of captain. He is a member of the National Insurance Appeal Tribunal and the Yorkshire executive of the Liberal Party.

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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 : Aberdare

CANDIDATE : Hinton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. ?. E. Hinton is managing director of a firm manufacturing combustion stoves. He was born in 1901 and held posts in shipping in India and Burma from 1922 to 1930. Serving with the Royal Engineers, 1939-46, he held a staff appointment at Southern Command H.Q. He was elected to Watford Borough Council in 1946.

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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 : Newport

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Owen, a Cardiff barrister, was born in 1922 and educated at Swansea Technical College and University College Law School. While there during the war, he volunteered for air crew duty and served in the R.A.F. for five years, becoming a flight lieutenant. On his release in 1946 he resumed legal studies at Lincoln’s Inn and is in practice in Cardiff.

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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 : Breconshire and Radnorshire

CANDIDATE : Gibson-Watt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. D. Gibson-Watt, is 34 and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He is farming in Radnorshire and is a member of the Welsh Land Settlement Society and the Radnorshire County Council. He served with the Welsh Guards in North Africa in the war, and won the Military Cross and two bars. He finished the war as instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is fifth in descent from James Watt, inventor of the steam engine.

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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 : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. P. Owen, who unsuccessfully contested East Surrey in 1945, is an accountant and director of a textile company in the county and a member of the committee of the Textile Institute. Born in North Wales in 1920, he served in the Army throughout the war.

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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 : Aberavon

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. M. Thomas, 31, is secretary to a large industrial concern in Cardiff. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, he took first place in South Wales in both his intermediate and final examinations. He is reading for the Bar at Gray’s Inn.

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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 : Pontypridd

CANDIDATE : Pearson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Pearson, a bachelor, born in 1897, was for 25 years a chair-maker at Pontypridd. For five years he was secretary of the local trades council and Labour Party and for 12 years was a member of the urban district council, and chairman in 1937. He sat on the county council for 17 years until 1945, and became an M.P. in 1938. He was a Government whip throughout the last Parliament, and has been Comptroller of the Household and Treasurer of the Household. He is a member of the county agricultural wages board.

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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 : Pontypool

CANDIDATE : Russell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Russell was born in Glasgow. He has lived in South Wales since 1937 and is employed as a works accountant. Hs has been active in voluntary work in the lower eastern valley of Monmouthshire since 1941.

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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 : Coatbridge and Airdrie

CANDIDATE : O’Callaghan

PARTY : Irish Anti-Partition

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. P. O’Callaghan is a Roman Catholic school teacher. He says that he is Labour at heart, and is not opposed to Labour principles, but that his candidature was a protest against Labour passing the Ireland Act.

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