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 : Merton and Morden

CANDIDATE : Palmer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. M. F. Palmer, aged 37, won Wimbledon from the Conservatives at the 1945 election. Educated at Ashford County School and at technical colleges, he studied electrical engineering from 1931 to 1935, and in 1936 joined the head office staff of the London Power Company. During his term in Parliament he concentrated on fuel and power questions, and was vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party fuel and power committee. He was formerly a member of the Brentford and Chiswick Borough Council.

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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 : Newcastle upon Tyne Central

CANDIDATE : Wilkes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Wilkes is a barrister on the North Eastern Circuit and was born in 1914. He was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was chairman of the University Labour Club in 1937. In the war he saw service with the Greek rebels operating behind the German lines, and rose to 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 : Norwich North

CANDIDATE : Rees

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. R. Rees was born in 1903 and is a son of a Baptist minister. A teacher, he was first chairman of the London Conservative Teachers’ Association. He is a member of the Council for Education in World Citizenship. During the war he organized emergency feeding services in Hampstead, St. Pancras, Holborn, Westminster, and Lambeth.

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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 : Nottingham South

CANDIDATE : Watkins

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. G. Watkins, aged 37, and an economist with an oil company, was educated at Cambridge and the University of Wales, specializing in international law and international relations. During the last war he served in the Australian Forces, subsequently transferring to the Indian Army, and after the war he was on the military government in Hongkong.

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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 : Plymouth Devonport

CANDIDATE : Churchill

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Randolph Churchill, son of Mr. Winston Churchill, is a lecturer and journalist, Who was born in 1911 and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered politics by contesting West Toxteth, 1935, and subsequently fought Ross and Cromarty, 1936. Returned for Preston in 1940, he lost the seat in 1945. During the war he was parachuted into Marshal Tito’s headquarters in Yugoslavia and served for a year with the British Military Mission. He has lectured many times in America.

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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 : Portsmouth West

CANDIDATE : Bruce

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. W. T. Bruce entered Parliament as member for the north division of Portsmouth in 1945 and served as Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. A. Bevan. He was also a member of the royal dockyards, finance and blitzed cities groups of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Born in 1912, he is a chartered accountant. A major in the 1939-45 war he was a member of General Eisenhower’s staff at Supreme Headquarters.

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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 : Reading South

CANDIDATE : Rissik

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. C. Rissik comes of a South African family, but was born near Manchester in 1919. After leaving Harrow he read history at Oxford University and was elected to the executive of the Conservative Association there. Commissioned with The Durham Light Infantry in 1940, he served in India and Burma, including the first and second Arakan campaigns, and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He formed the Seer Green Conservative Association in Buckinghamshire and became its chairman. He is a lawyer.

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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 : Rotherham

CANDIDATE : Body

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Body, born in 1927 in Reading, where he was educated, is reading for the Bar at the Middle Temple. During the war he ssrved in the R.A.F., chiefly in India. In 1948-49, he was secretary of the Glanvil Society, and he has been active in politics since the age of 16, when he began speaking in Hyde Park.

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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 : Salford West

CANDIDATE : Storey

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. H. Storey, aged 43, is in the timber trade, and is director of a large Manchester firm. He is an executive member of Hardwood Importers’ Section, Timber Trade Federation, and the Kiln Owners’ Association, and was area secretary of the Timber Control until 1945, when he resigned to contest Wavertree. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and is a governor of Widnes Technical College.

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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 Neepsend

CANDIDATE : Cook

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. M. Cook, who is 32, was educated at Uppingham and Sheffield University, and commissioned in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1940. After service in the Middle East and Italy, he entered the family business and became managing director in 1947. He has travelled in Europe, the Middle East, and Canada.

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