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 : Morecambe and Lonsdale

CANDIDATE : Fraser

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Ian Fraser was born 52 years ago and was educated at Marlborough and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In June, 1916, just before he was 19, he went to France with his regiment, and soon afterwards while leading a bombing party was shot through the eyes. He went to St. Dunstan’s in September, 1916, and in 1921 became chairman of the organization. From 1922 to 1925 he represented North St. Pancras on the London County Council, and in 1924 was elected to Parliament for the division. He resigned in 1936 when appointed a governor of the B.B.C. and returned to Parliament for the Lonsdale division of Lancashire in 1940. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1943, and since 1947 has been national president of the British Legion.

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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 : Bosworth

CANDIDATE : Allen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. C. Allen, born in 1887 and educated at elementary schools and Ruskin College, Oxford, to which he gained a T.U.C. scholarship, is an M official of the Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. He has be?n chairman of Irthling-borough U.D.C., and was for many years on Northants County Council, of which he is an alderman. He holds a university diploma in economics and political science. His travels have included Russia, where hejiad an interview with Mr. Stalin.

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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 : Grantham

CANDIDATE : Millett

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Millett has fought three electoral contests. He is a surveyor and builder, and for many years took an active part in the National Federation of Building Trade Employers. He has served on Kesteven County Council and Stamford Borough Council. Born in 1890, he was educated at St. Alban’s School, Holborn, and Northampton Polytechnic.

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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 : Spelthorne

CANDIDATE : Temple

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Temple contested Spelthorne three times previously. A former advertisement manager for several periodicals and free-lance journalist, he has been a lecturer for the Ministry of Information and Central Office of Information. He served with the R.N.A.S. in the 1914-18 war, and, during the last war, toured the ” invasion coast ” lecturing on anti-invasion measures. He lives in London.

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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 : Norfolk South

CANDIDATE : Mayhew

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. P. Mayhew, who won the seat in 1945, was appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1946 and retained the post to the end of the Parliament. Son of a former High Sheriff of Norfolk, he was educated at Haileybury and Oxford, where he won the University Economics Prize and became president of the Union. Joining the Territorial Army after Munich, he landed in France in 1939 and later served in Africa and Sicily with the commando detachment of the ” Phantom ” regiment, and with special forces from Normandy to the Baltic.

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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 : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Webb

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Webb stood as Common Wealth candidate at Daventry in 1945. He is 48 and went to elementary and grammar schools at Northampton, and is a boot and shoe manufacturer. An active worker in the Congregational Church, his main interest is the Boys’ Brigade, and he succeeded his father as chairman of Northampton Men’s Own.

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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 : Broxtowe

CANDIDATE : Bailey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. P. E. Bailey was born in 1923 and educated at Oakham School, Rutland. He was one of the youngest officer gunners serving with Bomber Command during the war, in which he lost the sight of one eye when attacked by a German night-fighter. During his service he took part in many big bombing raids. On his discharge he entered the iron and steel 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 : Banbury

CANDIDATE : Robson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. W. Robson is 45 and lives in the constituency at Middle Aston, where he farms 1,000 acres, and, in addition, is senior partner in a firm of accountants in London, Leeds, and Bradford, and of another firm of industrial advisers. He is a member of the Council of the Chartered Institute of Accountants, and is president-designate of the Institute of Costs and Works Accountants. He visited the United States last year as financial adviser to the Anglo-American Council on Productivity, and earlier acted in a similar capacity to Unrra and the International Refugee Organization.

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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 : Somerset North

CANDIDATE : Leather

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. H. C. Leather was born in 1919 in Toronto, where his parents had gone from Manchester. Graduating at the Royal Military College of Canada, he was commissioned in the Canadian Army in 1939. One of the original officers of the 1st (Canadian) Parachute Battalion, he was injured in a parachute failure and spent nine months in a plaster cast. Later he served in Belgium, Holland, and Germany. In 1945 he contested Bristol South. He is in business with a firm of insurance and banking brokers in the City, and lives in London.

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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 : Brierley Hill

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Williams, who is 41, received his education at Plymouth College and the R.A.F. College, Cranwell? He was gazetted pilot officer in 1928, and in 1936 founded a company to develop the Whittle system. In 1941 he was appointed managing director of this concern, and three years later became a director of Power Jets (Research and Development) Limited, a Government-sponsored body. He is a companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a member of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors.

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