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 : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Piratin

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Piratin was the first Communist member of Stepney Borough Council, on which he became a ” one-man opposition,” but lost the seat in 1949. He entered Parliament in 1945 as member for Mile End, making, with Mr. W. Gallacher, a Communist Party of two. He is 43 years old.

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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 : Wandsworth Streatham

CANDIDATE : Sandys

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Sandys, a son-in-law of Mr. Churchill, sat for Norwood from 1935 to 1945, and has been Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, Minister of Works, and chairman of the War Cabinet commit- jj tee for defence against German V – weapons. Born in 1908, the son of a §g former M.P. for Wells, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and entered the diplomatic service. He was one of the Expeditionary Force to Norway in 1940, and the next year, after being disabled, he became Finance Member of the Army Council and later chairman of the Inter-governmental Council for Empire Prisoners of War.

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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 : Acton

CANDIDATE : Furniss

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Pauline Furniss, aged 25, is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where she took first-class honours in modern history and political philosophy. She is national secretary of the United Nations Students’ Association and was formerly on the editorial staff of a Belfast newspaper.

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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 : Barrow-in-Furness

CANDIDATE : Jardine

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. A. A. Jardine is an insurance superintendent at Barrow-in-Furness. Aged 40, he went to Bootle Grammar School and entered the service of an insurance company in Liverpool in 1935, rising to district superintendent. In the war he served in India.

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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 : Bilston

CANDIDATE : Nally

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Nally, a journalist, born in 1914, served as a war correspondent in north-west Europe, after having been discharged from the R.A. as medically unfit. At the age of 17 he was appointed leader of the Labour Youth movement in Manchester. He won Bilston in 1945 and became Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning and secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s Common Wealth Group.

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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 : Birmingham Hall Green

CANDIDATE : Crehan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Crehan came to Birmingham as a schoolboy from Edinburgh, where he was born in 1919. From a secondary school he passed to Birmingham University, where he graduated M.A. with honours in English for a thesis on George Bernard Shaw. He has since had a varied experience in Post Office work, salesmanship, teaching, lecturing, and writing. He is a member of Staffs 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 : Birmingham Perry Barr

CANDIDATE : Hinks

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Frances N. Hinks, a local housewife, is president of Birmingham Women’s Liberal Association. She recently spent a month in the British zone in Western Germany.

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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 : Blackburn East

CANDIDATE : Hague

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Hague is a native of Blackpool and was born in 1922- Before the war he worked «i the Blackpool Education Department and in */°cal bank, joining the Army in 1941. He was discharged in March, 1944, after injury to a if8 during an assault course. After the war “e secured a LL.B. degree at London Univer-elty, and is a barrister on the Northern Circuit. ?’ is chairman of Blackpool South Liberal l^°5,iation and president of the Lancashire *nQ Cheshire Young Liberals Federation.

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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 : Bootle

CANDIDATE : Kinley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Kinley represented Bootle, 1929-31 and since 1945. He is a hairdresser, and served J°r many years on Bootle ^Jil, of which he is an alderman. For many years was a member of «f I.L.P. He is self-B-ed’ writes Gregg’s Pitman’s shorthand, and has taught himself French, German, and Spanish.

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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 : Bradford North

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Taylor was born in 1902 and educated at Barnsley and Sheffield University. He ls a civil engineering contractor and a fellow and member of the coun-cil of the Institute of Builders. A member of Barnsley Borough Council, 1933-45, he is closely associated with the Territorial and Air Training Corps movements, he is a member of the Air Ministry’s advisory committee.

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