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 : Glasgow Shettleston

CANDIDATE : McEwen

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. McEwen, a journalist on the staff of the Daily Worker in London, fought the Dunbartonshire by-election in 1941. At 26, he was the first Labour member of Ross County Council, and joined the Communist Party in 1939. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University.

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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 : Kirkcaldy District of Burghs

CANDIDATE : Hubbard

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. F. Hubbard, elected for Kirkcaldy in 1944, is an official miners’ candidate — one of four in Scotland. He is president of the Scottish Old Age Pensioners’ Association. Born in 1898 and starting work as a grocer’s apprentice, he became a miner and continued in that capacity until he received a serious leg injury in 1941. He is vice-president of the British association of old-age pensioners.

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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 : North Angus and Mearns

CANDIDATE : Adam

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Adam was born in 1914 and educated at Rugby and Sandhurst. He fought Thurrock, Essex, as a Conservative in 1945 and, after a dispute on policy with the Conservatives, joined the Liberal Party. A Regular Army officer for 13 years, he retired as a major in 1947. He is manager of a mixed farm near Aberdeen, and managing director of an Aber-de^n firm. He is an advocate of co-partnership.

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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 : Kilmarnock

CANDIDATE : Thomson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Thomson unsuccessfully contested West Edinburgh in 1945. A partner in an old-established firm of fireworks manufacturers, he reported on German explosives plants for the Government. During the last war he served in the ranks in The Black Watch and the Royal Engineers. He was born in 1917.

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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 : Dunbartonshire East

CANDIDATE : Whitelaw

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. S. I. Whitelaw, a landowner and farmer, aged 32, was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a major in the Scots Guards during the war and gained the M.C. and was mentioned in dispatches for services in Normandy. He was a Cambridge golfing Blue in 1938-39.

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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 : Western Isles

CANDIDATE : Macmillan

PARTY : Lab

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. K. Macmillan won this division in 1935 at the age of 22 and has represented it for 15 years. He is chairman of the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel and chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party. Born in 1913, he was educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University, and is a journalist and editor of a local Labour weekly journal.

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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 : Lanarkshire North

CANDIDATE : Ross

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. T. D. Ross is a serving officer with The Black Watch and is stationed at Winston Barracks, Lanark. He was awarded the D.S.O. in the Chindit campaign in Burma. His father, a Scot, moved to Stourbridge to set up in business as a carpet manufacturer.

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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 : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Gomme-Duncan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. A. Gomme-Duncan was born in 1893, and educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School. He served in the 1914-18 war with The Black Watch and The London Scottish, and was awarded the M.C. After the war he served in India with The Black Watch, and was a staff officer, Western Command, Quetta, and then in a similar capacity with Northern Command, York. He retired from the Army in 1937, but served again in the last war, retiring in 1945. In the same year he entered Parliament for Perth and Kinross, and gave particular attention to matters concerning Scottish agriculture.

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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 : West Lothian

CANDIDATE : Mathers

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Mathers was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1946 and the two following years. Born at St. Boswells, Roxburghshire, in 1886, he worked as a railway clerk and was active in trade union and labour affairs. He was a member of Carlisle City Council from 1919 to 1921, and from 1929 to 1931 he was M.P. for West Edinburgh, and re-entered Parliament in 1935 for the then Linlithgow division. In 1944-45 he was Comptroller of H.M. Household, and later became Treasurer of the Household and Deputy Chief Whip. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Edinburgh. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1947.

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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 : Battersea North

CANDIDATE : Maddan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Madden, aged 29, was educated at Fettes and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read politics, philosophy, and economics. A marketing consultant, he is in charge of the North American department of the British Export Trade Research Organization.

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