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 : Cardiganshire

CANDIDATE : Little

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. G. S. R. Little, 42, qualified as a doctor in 1930, having trained at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. For 14 years he practised at Worksop, Notts, but early in 1947 he gave up medical practice and took up farming near Cardigan. During the war he took an active part in A.R.P. and was acting medical officer of health.

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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 : Flintshire West

CANDIDATE : Birch

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Nigel Birch, elected for the Flintshire division in 1945, was born in 1906 and educated at Eton. He was in business until 1939, and served throughout the war on the •General Staff, being promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1944. Since entering Parliament he has specialized in financial subjects and has toured western Germany and Africa.

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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 : Neath

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Thomas, West Wales organizer of the Communist Party, went to America in 1912 when he was five, and was educated there and in Canada. Returning in 1924, he took an engineering course at Swansea University. While working in the mines, he won a scholarship to London Labour College, and was one of nine expelled for their political views. ?e joined the Communists and oiganized three ” hunger ” marches to 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 : Ebbw Vale

CANDIDATE : Bevan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, has sat in Parliament for the Ebbw Vale division since 1929. He was born in Tredegar in 1897 and started work in the Tredegar collieries at an early age. Prominent in trade union affairs, he was soon on the executive of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, gained a seat on the county council, and in 1921 was a leader of demonstrations of unemployed seeking assistance from the local Poor Law authorities. During the war he became conspicuous for his criticisms of the Coalition Government. His appointment as Minister of Health when the last Government took office was his first Government post.

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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 : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Tweedsmuir

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Tweedsmuir was unsuccessful in North Aberdeen in the 1945 election, but a year later won this constituency in a by-election. Her first husband, Sir Arthur Grant, was killed in action with the Grenadier Guards in Normandy, and she married Lord Tweedsmuir in 1948. Born in 1915, Lady Tweedsmuir was educated in England, Germany, and France. She is a governor of the British Film Institute.

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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 : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Gellatly

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. L. Gellatly, a retired Regular officer, has had 21 years’ service with the Gordon Highlanders and R.A.F. Contesting South Midlothian and Peebles in 1945, he lost his deposit. At the end of the last war, he served with Church of Scotland canteens in Italy and Austria, and is a welfare supervisor for the Y.M.C.A. in Fife, the Lothians, and Border counties, having the care of European voluntary workers. He farms near Edinburgh.

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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 : Edinburgh South

CANDIDATE : Earsman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. P. Earsman is leader of the Labour group in the city council, and was president of the Scottish Council of the Labour Party, 1948. He claims to be the only Briton to have served in the Red Army. He was an engineer on oil well development and served as A.D.C. to Trotsky for 18 months. On leaving Russia he received a gold medal from Trotsky in appreciation of his services to the country. For many years since his return he has been a severe critic of Soviet 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 : Glasgow Central

CANDIDATE : Aldred

PARTY : Ind. Soc.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Aldred, a Left-wing propagandist, has previously contested elections in the Central, Camlachie, and Bridgeton divisions. He has frequently sought municipal honours in Glasgow without success.

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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 : Glasgow Maryhill

CANDIDATE : Hannan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Hannan, former insurance agent and Glasgow town councillor, was elected in 1945. He is a native of Glasgow, lives in the constituency, and has been a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury since 1946. He was a member of Glasgow City Council, and his special interests have been national insurance, housing, food, and fuel and power. He is 44.

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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 : Glasgow Springburn

CANDIDATE : Campbell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. W. Campbell, 45 years old, is a master grocer. He is vice-chairman of the Glasgow Grocers’ and Provision M?rchants” Association and is convener of the association’s education committee.

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