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 : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Welsh Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. D. E. Morgan, a Baptist minister, aged 30, graduated with honours in Welsh at the University of Wales and took his B.A. degree at the Honours School of Theology at Oxford. In 1945 he won the fine prose competition at the Rhos National Eisteddfod.

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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 : Barry

CANDIDATE : Rees

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. D. Rees was at one time a schoolteacher and was formerly a member of Barry Borough Council. She is an alderman of Glamorgan County Council and a member of the national advisory committee for National Insurance. She is also a member of the Joint Education Committee for Wales and of the Welsh Teaching Hospitals Board.

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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 : Pontypridd

CANDIDATE : Rhys-Roberts

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. T. E. R. Rhys-Roberts, a Regular Army officer, was educated at Westminster and Sandhurst. After active service in the last war, he was seconded to the Foreign Office and was attached to the British Embassy, Athens. He is a barrister practising on the Wales and Chester circuit. He has broadcast and compered the B.B.C. feature programme ” Welsh Magazine.”

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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 : Pontypool

CANDIDATE : Mathias

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. R. Mathias was born at Pont-newydd(Mon.)in 1916. He served in the Royal Navy during the last war and attained the rank of lieutenant-commander at the age of 26. On demobilization he became a chief maintenance officer for Unrra. Later he worked in Australia with a firm of consulting engineers, and afterwards returned to this country in connexion with machinery for a new paper mill company in Australia.

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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 : Dundee East

CANDIDATE : Cook

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. F. Cook, an electrician, was elected senior member for Dundee in 1945. He is 41. Formerly a member of the I.L.P. and the Scottish Socialist Party, he joined the Labour Party in 1933. A lecturer in economics and industrial history for the National Council of Labour Colleges, he has been Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr.Harold Wilson at the Board of Trade.

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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 Leith

CANDIDATE : Hoy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Hoy, who won the seat from Mr. Ernest Brown in 1945, is an interior decorator, aged 41, who went to an elementary school and Causewayside and Sciennes, Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Corps of Signals and served with the Eighth Army in Africa and the B.L.A. in Europe. He has served as Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Under-Secretaiy of State for War. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation to 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 : Glasgow Bridgeton

CANDIDATE : Irwin

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Irwin, aged 21, is one of the youngest candidates in Scotland. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Oxford and has spoken in many by-elections.

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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 Govan

CANDIDATE : Davis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Davis was selected as the Labour candidate in place of Mr. Neil Maclean, who had represented the constituency since 1918 and was willing to stand again but was regarded as being too old at 75. Aged 48, and an advertising consultant, Mr. Davis has been a member of Glasgow Corporation since 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 : Glasgow Scotstoun

CANDIDATE : McIlhone

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. McIlhone is 47 and Glasgow organizer of the Communist Party, which he joined in 1923. He is chairman of the Scottish Tenants’ Association.

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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 Woodside

CANDIDATE : Woodside

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. L. Woodside, son of a former Glasgow minister, is a sales representative of an electric cable firm. In 1914 he emigrated to Canada, but returned the next year to fight with the Canadian forces, and later held a commission in The Highland Light Infantry.

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