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 : Middlesbrough West

CANDIDATE : Cooper

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Geoffrey Cooper is in business as an adviser on reorganization and development. Born in 1907, he went to grammar schools at Leicester and Worcester, and afterwards studied accountancy and business management. Before the war he was engaged in civil flying, and during the war was a wing commander in Fighter and Coastal Commands.

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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 North

CANDIDATE : Headlam

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Cuthbert Headlam was elected for this division in 1940, and previously sat for Barnard Castle, 1924-29 and 1931-35. He was at various times Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, to the Minister of Pensions, and to the Minister of Transport. He was born in 1876, and was adopted for North Newcastle at a meeting of the local association, which reversed a decision of the executive council that he should not be nominated because of age. He went to King’s School, Canterbury, and Magdalen College, Oxford, and has been a member of Durham County 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 : Nottingham Central

CANDIDATE : Glyn-Barton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. M. Glyn-Barton, aged 24, is articled to his father, a London solicitor. ?hile at Brasenose College, Oxford, he founded the Oxford University Centre Society, a Liberal organization, and helped to found the University United Europe movement, but subsequently left it because of a difference on policy.

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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 : Oldham East

CANDIDATE : Kirkman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss W. Kirkman is 52 and is a teacher. She was elected to the Oldham Town Council two years ago. She is also a trained soprano singer. She is a past president of the Oldham branch of the National Union of Women Teachers, chairman of the Oldham Liberal Association, and a past president of the Oldham Business and Professional Women’s Club.

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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 : Pontefract

CANDIDATE : Grant

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Grant, a teacher in the Upton Modern School, near Pontefract, started his career as an engineering apprentice in the Navy. He was wounded aboard H.M.S. Suffolk in the Norweg an campaign, and later joined H.M.S. Heckler, which was sunk in the North African landings in 1942. After the war he was for a time a sales engineer in Malaya.

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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 : Preston South

CANDIDATE : Shackleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. A. Shackle-ton, son of the famous explorer, and himself the organizer and surveyor of the Oxford University expedition to Ellesmere Land in 1934-35, entered Parliament in 1946, at a by-election, and became Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Supply. Born in 1911 and educated at Radley and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was a wing commander in the R.A.F. intelligence service in the war. He has given special attention to industrial organization in the cotton industry.

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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 : Fulford

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Roger Fulford was born in 1902 and educated at Lancing and Worcester College, Oxford, where he was president of the Union. He is a barrister, journalist, and author of historical books, and during the war was a censor and served for a time as private secretary to Sir Archibald Sinclair at the Air Ministry. He is treasurer of the Free Trade Union.

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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 : Ruislip Northwood

CANDIDATE : Birk

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. A. L. Birk is aged 30 and the wife of a solicitor. She took a degree in economics in 1939 at the London School of Economics. Interested in youth work and penal reform, she serves on the committee of a North London youth club, is a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform, and lectures at Holloway Prison.

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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 Hallam

CANDIDATE : Jennings

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Jennings, who has held Hallam since the 1939 by-election, is 55 and an accountant practising in London and Sunderland. An officer in The Durham Light Infantry in the 1914-18 war, he was wounded in France. Formerly M.P. for Sedgefield (Durham), he was defeated there in 1935.

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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 : Southall

CANDIDATE : Pargiter

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. Pargiter was member for Spel-thorne in the last Parliament. Born in 1897 and educated at Towcester Grammar School, he is an engineer and has held many offices in the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He was mayor of Southall for three years in succession and is leader of the Labour group on Middlesex County Council, of which he has been a member since 1934. He has accompanied Parliamentary delegations to Germany and Finland. Wounded at Gallipoli in the 1914-18 war, he was Civil Defence controller in Southall in the last war.

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