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 : Rugby

CANDIDATE : Johnson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Johnson, the son of a Northumberland miner, born in 1908, won his way by scholarships to Leeds University, where he took his B.A. with first-class honours. He is a lecturer in social studies at Coventry Technical College and on the executive of the West Midland Council of Labour parties. He played football for the English Universities XI and the Corinthians.

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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 : Isle of Wight

CANDIDATE : Macdonald

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Peter Macdonald has sat for this division since 1924. Born in Nova Scotia in 1895, he was educated at Dal-housie College, Canada, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served with the forces in both wars. During his membership of the House of Commons he founded, a.id was chairman for 20 years of the Conservative Parliamentary Imperial Affairs Committee ; member of the Select Committee on Estimates for the past 20 years ; a member of many other committees and of Parliamentary delegations to foreign countries.

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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 : Bromsgrove

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. W. T. Hill, 33 years of age, is a carpet manufacturer in Kidderminster and has been active in the work of the Independent Traders’ Alliance and the National Union of Manufacturers. He served in the Royal Armoured Corps during the war and was in control of a province in Sicily during the operations there, being presented with the ” freedom of the province by the inhabitants on leaving.

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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 : Richmond (Yorkshire)

CANDIDATE : Dugdale

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Thomas Dugdale, who was first returned for the division in 1929, has served as Parliamentary private secretary to several Ministers, including the late Lord Baldwin. A past chairman of the Conservative Party, he is chairman of the Conservative Party Agricultural Committee. Born in 1897, and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he entered the Army in 1916, serving with The Scots Greys. He was in the Yorkshire Hussars in the late 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 : Don Valley

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Tom Williams, Minister of Agriculture, has represented this div is-ion uninterruptedly for nearly 30 years, being first elected inNovember, 1922. Starting work as a miner, he concentrated on agricultural subjects when most of his fellow Labour members were swept from Parliament in 1931. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agric?lture throughout the war and became the Minister of Agiiculture on the formation of the Labour Government in 1945. He is 61.

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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 : Rother Valley

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Griffiths, 54, won Rother Valley in 1945. At 13 he was a mine worker, and then for 17 years was a trade union official for the Hickleton Main blanch of the Yorkshire Mine-workers’ Association. Elected to Dearne Urban Council in 1925, he was chairman three times before retiring in 1945. He was also a member of the former Don Valley Board of Guardians and of Swinton and District Isolation Hospital committee.

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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 : Cardiff North

CANDIDATE : Llewellyn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Llewellyn is 34, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and is a local business man. After serving in the ranks in The Royal Fusiliers during the war, he was commissioned in the Welsh Guards. He has travelled in Europe, America and Canada.

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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 : Rhondda East

CANDIDATE : Nicholls

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Nicholls, first Conservative to fight the seat in 21 years, was born ?n 1909. Joining the special constabulary when war broke out, he became national chairman of the Auxiliary Police Association in 1943, and launched a campaign for improved conditions of service. Mr. Nicholls is a member of Eastleigh (Hants) 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 : Caernarvon

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. R. Thomas is 27 and a farmer, and was at the University of Wales. He gained honours in economics and political science, and was awarded the certificate of social science and public administration at the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Liberal Party national executive and last year did social work in the East End of London and in Bristol. He served in the Royal Navy during the 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 : Wrexham

CANDIDATE : Richards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Richards, 64, has represented Wrexham continuously since 1935. He first won the seat in 1922 and was Undersecretary for India in the first Labour Government. He also sat in the 1929-31 Parliament. Son of a miner, he became head of the Economics Department of the North Wales University College, Bangor, and a tutor in economics and political science at Coleg Harlech.

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