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 : Preston North

CANDIDATE : Hemelryk

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. Hemelryk, whose mother is a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, was born in 1889, and educated at Stonyhurst and Oxford. After serving in the first world war he was called to the Bar in 1917 and practised in Liverpool and Preston for many years. For the past four years he has been chairman of the Preston Liberal 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 : Rochdale

CANDIDATE : Hale

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Hale, aged 39, is prominent in political and trade union activities in Bolton, where he is a plastic mould maker and charge hand. He has served on the town council and is on the National Council of Labour Colleges. Between the two wars he was an engineer in the Mercantile Marine.

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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 : Rowley Regis and Tipton

CANDIDATE : Yates

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Yates, who is 31, was in the Army for six years during the war, and is now a railway clerk. In 1945, while serving abroad, he was selected to oppose Mr. Churchill at Woodford, but arrived home too late to be adopted.

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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 : Sheffield Brightside

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. H. S. V. Smith, author of books on political and social problems, is 30 and lives at Wraysbury, Bucks. A captain in Royal Marine Commandos, he was wounded at Dieppe in 1942, and won the M.C. and Croix de Guerre. In 1945 he was director of supplies for United Nations relief agencies, and was later director of relief operations in Germany.

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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 : Smethwick

CANDIDATE : Gordon-Walker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Gordon-Walker, Under-Secre-tary for Commonwealth Relations in the last Parliament, has the distinction of beginning the list of successful by-elections for the Labour Party in the last Parliament, for he contested Smethwick in October, 1945, and not only retained the seat (which had been won from the Conservatives at the General Election) but increased the majority by 717 votes. He was an Oxford tutor, and was educated at Wellington and Christ Church, Oxford. During the war he was a member of the B.B.C. European service staff. He is 42.

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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 : Southend West

CANDIDATE : Hutchison

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. C. Hutchison, an insurance district manager, who was born in 1896 and had an elementary education, was for 15 years a lecturer for Labour colleges and for the London Co-operative Society. He has also been active in the trade union movement and was district council secretary for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.

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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 : Stockport South

CANDIDATE : Ponsonby

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Ponsonby was born and educated in Stockport, and started in business as a leather merchant in 1913. For many years a member of Stockport Town Council, he became an alderman in 1945, antl was mayor in 1948. A director of Stockport County F.C., he has also been chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire Leather and Grindery Merchants’ 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 : Sunderland North

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Hudson, born in 1902, is the head of a building firm, a past president of the Northern Counties Federation of Master Builders’ Associations, and a vice-president of the National Master Builders’ Associations. He is an active worker for Methodism. He was educated at Sedbergh, and played Rugby for Durham County.

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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 : Tottenham

CANDIDATE : Faulkner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Wo. Cdr. P. J. Faulkner was born in 1895 of Ulster stock. He is a B.Sc. (Econ.) and a well-known lecturer and writer on industry and economics. He worked underground as a miner for a time to gain practical experience. One of the Conservative Party’s authorities on trade union matters, he has represented the party in debates with?prominent Labour personalities all over the country. An infantry officer in the 1914-18 war, he served with the R.A.F. in the last 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 : Wallsend

CANDIDATE : Appleby

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. M. Appleby is the head of a century-old firm of solicitors in Newcastle-on-Tyne. A son of Sir Alfred Appleby, he was born in 1904 and educated at Rugby and Oxford. He has been deputy coroner for Newcastle since 1935, and was for four years under-sheriff. He is chairman of the political council of the Northern Conservative Club, and was a squadron leader in the R.A.F. during the war.

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