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 : Edinburgh East

CANDIDATE : Hope

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Hope, a journalist, 34 years of age, was born in the constituency and worked on Scottish newspapers before going south. He is a former member of the B.B.C. news staff and subsequently a public relations officer in the Ministry of Supply. His wife, Charlotte Frances, producer and dramatist, was a founder of the repertory movement in Dundee.

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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 : Glasgow Bridgeton

CANDIDATE : Carmichael

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Carmichael was elected as I.L.P. member in 1946, succeeding the late Mr. James Maxton, but later followed other I.L.P. members into the Labour Party. Born in 1894, he became a steel erector and then an organizer for the I.L.P., with whom he was associated for 33 years. He has had nearly 20 years’ experience of local administration as a member of Glasgow Corporation.

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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 : Glasgow Govan

CANDIDATE : Browne

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. N. Browne contested the constituency in 1945. He has business connexions with Glasgow and has taken part in its municipal politics. He is a member of the general purposes committee of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, and served with the Royal Air Force during 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 : Glasgow Pollok

CANDIDATE : Anderson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Anderson is on the staff of an aeroengine factory in Glasgow and edits the firm’s welfare society magazine. Fifty-one years of age, he is secretary of the council of the Glasgow Southern Parliamentary Debating 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 : Glasgow Woodside

CANDIDATE : Leonard

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Leonard represented the St. Rollox division from 1931 to the dissolution. Born in 1887 and a cabinetmaker by trade, he is a member of the Scottish Advisory Committee of the Labour Party and a former president of the Scottish Trade Union Congress. For several years he was Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Andrew Duncan, and later Joint Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Supply and Aircraft Production.

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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 : Aberdeenshire East

CANDIDATE : Boothby

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Robert Boothby has been member for the constituency since 1924. He was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Churchill when the latter was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1926 to 1929, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food in the early part of the last war. He has been a conspicuous backbench speaker in debates on financial and economic affairs and a champion of the virtues of herring as a food. Born in 1900, he was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.

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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 : Bute and North Ayrshire

CANDIDATE : MacAndrew

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Charles MacAndrew has held the || seat since 1935, and -was previously M.P. for B Kilmarnock, 1924-29, and for the Partick division of Glasgow, 1931-35. Born in 1888, he was educated at Uppingham and Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as chairman of many Standing Committees of the House of Commons, and for a time in 1945 was Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. He has been a member of the Racecourse Betting Control Board since 1938.

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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 : Berwickshire and East Lothian

CANDIDATE : Stodart

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Stodart, aged 33, was educated at Wellington College, started farming at the age of 18, and has made a study of the economics of arable farming. He is vice-chairman of the Scottish 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 : Fife West

CANDIDATE : Fraser

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. W. N. Fraser was born in 1917, and is managing director of an Edinburgh printers and book publishers. He is a former hon. sec. of the Scottish 1946 Club, and thus became connected with political work. During the war he served in the ranks with the Royal Corps of Signals, and was then commissioned in the R.A.O.C. He attained the rank of major.

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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 : Lanark

CANDIDATE : Dunglass

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lord Dunglass, heir to the Earl of Home, lost his seat to Mr. Steele in 1945 after holding it since 1931. In the ” caretaker ” Government he was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and has been Parliamentary private secretary to several Ministers, including the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain. He has close family ties with the division and is a former president of the Scottish Unionist Association.

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