CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Heeley
CANDIDATE : Beckerlegge
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. Beckerlegge, aged 33, is a director of a family business of tool and gauge makers largely engaged in the export trade and is secretary of the local Liberal Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southampton Itchen
CANDIDATE : Hobart
PARTY : Nat. L. & C.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir R. H. Hobart is a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy. He served in destroyers in the last war until he lost an eye in operations off the coast of Italy. Debarred from further service afloat, he was employed on instructional duties at Portsmouth. Aged 35, he comes of a famous political family, being a descendant of John Hampden.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southport
CANDIDATE : Ellington
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Ellington, a surveyor and director of a Chester firm of contractors, was born in Blackburn in 1909. Before the war he was in practice in Liverpool, and, as a reserve officer, was called up to the Royal Engineers and served in India and Burma until 1946.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke-on-Trent North
CANDIDATE : Hodgens
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. W. Hodgens, aged 29, joined the Army from Balliol College, Oxford, where he had gained a scholarship. He was commissioned in 1942 and served in the Middle East and Italy. He is a member of the Conservative Research Department and of the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat. He served on the Allied Control Commission in Germany.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Swindon
CANDIDATE : Reid
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. Reid is a retired colonial administrator, having served in the Ceylon Civil Service from 1905 to 1931, and filled various judicial and administrative posts in the is?and, including special duty in connexion with the introduction of the new constitution, 1931. In 1933 he was appointed Financial Commissioner to report on the Seychelles Colony ; was chairman of the League of Nations Commission on the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 1937-38 ; and a member of the Palestine Partition Commission, 1938. He was elected for Swindon in 1945.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tynemouth
CANDIDATE : Slack
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. B. Slack, a 26-year-old lecturer at King’s College, Newcastle, was educated at Cambridge, and specialized in bio-chemistry. He volunteered for active service in the war, but was directed to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and engaged in Government research work. He is a member of the Nutrition Society and the First International Congress of Bio-chemistry and an associate member of the British Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow West
CANDIDATE : Paul
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. A. Paul, who was born in 1915 and educated at Christ’s Hospital, was for 15 years on the staff of a leading oil company until he resigned to fight the election. He is a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. During the war he served for six years in the R.A.F.V.R., and was demobilized with the rank of squadron leader.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wembley South
CANDIDATE : Russell
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. S. Russell is 46, and research secretary of the Empire Economic Union. He graduated at Cambridge, and was formerly a journalist. He was elected to the L.C.C. three years ago, serving on the town planning, welfare, and Parliamentary committees. In 1947 he attended the international conference on Trade and Employment at Geneva, and last year was chosen as a British delegate to the Westminster economic conference arranged by the United Europe Committee and the European Movement.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wigan
CANDIDATE : Webster
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. I. S. Webster, a barrister on the Northern Circuit, is 24, and lives at Rochdale. He was the first Liberal to contest Wigan since 1918. As a sub-lieutenant in the Navy, serving with the Fleet Air Arm, he was attached to the first night fighter squadron formed by the Navy and saw active service in the North Atlantic. He is a Rugby Union footballer.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton South West
CANDIDATE : Hughes
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. D. Hughes was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Balliol. He is organizing secretary of the Fabian Society, and a former member of Lambeth Borough Council. He served as a lieutenant with the Royal Artillery during the war. In the 1945 election he captured West Wolverhampton from the Conservatives. He was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Education and then to the Under-Secretary of State for War.
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