CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Torrington
CANDIDATE : Rashleigh
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. E. Rashleigh, wife of a doctor, is vice-president of the Devon and Cornwall Liberal Federation; she has undertaken much public work and is a leading figure in the Women’s Institute and youth movements.
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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 : Bishop Auckland
CANDIDATE : Lambton
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Viscount Lambton, aged 27, is the heir to the Earl of Durham. During the war he served for a time in The Hampshire Regiment, but was invalided out. He then took up war work in a Wallsend factory. In 1945 he was chairman of the Young Conservative organization in the northern area, comprising Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland, and he was a member of Durham County Council from 1947 to 1949, when he did not seek re-election. He was educated at Harrow.
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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 : Jarrow
CANDIDATE : Cox
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. L. Cox is manager of a quarrying firm’s purchasing department, and is vice-chairman of the Northern Area Young Conservatives. He is also a member of the national executive committee of the Young Conservative Central Council. He is aged 27.
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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 : Colchester
CANDIDATE : Goldblatt
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. Goldblatt, educated at Cambridge, and engaged in the timber trade, worked with the timber control department of the Ministry of Supply during the war.
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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 : Thurrock
CANDIDATE : Siddons
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. H. N. Siddons is a descendant of the famous actress and is an actor. Born in 1921, he was educated at Leicester and then studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He served with Bomber Command during the war as a flight lieutenant and won the D.F.C.
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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 : Aldershot
CANDIDATE : Gooden
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. H. Gooden, farmer and estate manager, with a good deal of experience in factory and industrial work, was born in 1909 and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford. He is a member of executives of Wells and West Dorset Liberal Associations.
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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 : Leominster
CANDIDATE : Morgan-Harris
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. Morgan-Harris, an aeronautical engineer who hopes to take up farming in Herefordshire, is 48. He has been test pilot for an air transport company, of which he is managing director. He joined the R.F.C. in the first world war, and saw active service with the R.N.A.S.
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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 : Hertfordshire South West
CANDIDATE : Longden
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. J. M. Longden, partner in a London firm of solicitors, is 48, and was educated at Hailey-bury and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He qualified with honours as a solicitor in 1924 and practised until 1930, when he became a company secretary in India, resigning in 1937. During the war he served in Burma with the 36th Division. He is chairman of Westminster university extension centre.
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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 : Dover
CANDIDATE : Arbuthnot
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. S. Arbuthnot contested Dover in the 1945 election. Born in 1912 and educated at Eton and Cambridge, he is connected professionally with the tea industry. A Territorial officer in the Royal Artillery, he was seconded for special service in connexion with explosives in 1940, and was later awarded the M.B.E. (military division) for scientific work.
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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 : Maidstone
CANDIDATE : White
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. A. White, aged 52, is the organizer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in the Maidstone and Medway towns area, vice-chairman of the Medway and Swale Dock Labour Board, and a member of the Thames and Medway Joint Industrial Council for the cement industry.
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