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 : Hove

CANDIDATE : Colclough

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. R. Colclough, aged 44, is a barrister and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. F?r five years a trooper in the Inns of Court Regiment he was commissioned at the outbreak of war and later held a staff appointment. He was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge and at the London School of Economics.

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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 : Ipswich

CANDIDATE : Seward

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Seward, an engineer, of Aylesbury, is 42 and was educated at Dover College. He entered the firm of Thornycrofts and went to India, and joined Rootes and General Motors on returning to England. He is now in a family motor business.

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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 : Kingston upon Thames

CANDIDATE : Boyd-Carpenter

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Boyd-Carpenter, aged 41, entered Parliament in 1945. A grandson of Bishop Boyd-Carpenter of Ripon, and son of the late Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, M.P. for Chertsey, 1931-37, he was educated at Stowe School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1933, and practised until the outbreak of war. In 1940 he was commissioned in the Scots Guards, and later served with the Allied Military Government.

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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 : Leeds South

CANDIDATE : Gaitskell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hugh Gaitskell became Minister of Fuel and Power in 1946. He was born in 1906 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours in philosophy, politics, and economics. Later he became a lecturer on economics and was appointed head of the Department of Political Economy at London University in 1938. During the war he was private secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare and later to Mr. Hugh Dalton at the Board of Trade. He was elected for South Leeds in 1945.

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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 : Leicester South East

CANDIDATE : Waterhouse

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. Charles Waterhouse represented the old South division of Leicester for 21 years, but was defeated at the 1945 election. He was an Assistant Whip in 1935-36 ; a Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1936; Comptroller of H.M. Household, 1937-38, and Treasurer in 1938-39; and became Assistant Postmaster-General from 1939 to 1941 ; and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1941 to 1945. He was educated at Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, and during the 1914-18 war served with the Life Guards.

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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 : Liverpool Edge Hill

CANDIDATE : Bowen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Bowen is 41 years of age and chairman of Edge Hill Liberal Association. He has been chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Union at Edge Gill and of the Liverpool Engineering Union. For three years he was hon. warden of a Toe H hostel in Liverpool. Born and educated in Birmingham, he is employed by a telephone manufacturing company.

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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 : Liverpool Walton

CANDIDATE : Thompson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. P. Thompson is a native of Liverpool, who began his career as a newspaper reporter but later entered commercial life. He was formerly a lecturer for the Economic League and has been a member of the Liverpool City Council since 1938. During the war he worked for the Ministry of Information.

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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 : Manchester Cheetham

CANDIDATE : Lever

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. H. Lever represented the Exchange division in the late Parliament. Born in 1914, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at the university and was afterwards called to the Bar and practised on the North-Western Circuit. He served, first in the ranks, during the war, and was commissioned in the R.A.F. Regiment. His brother, Mr. L. Lever, won the neighbouring constituency of Ardwick.

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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 : Manchester Withington

CANDIDATE : Cundiff

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Cundiff, son of a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, was M.P. for Rusholme from the by-election in 1944 until 1945, when he lost the seat by 10 votes. Born in 1895, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery from Manchester University O.T.C. Seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 he was shot down three times. In the last war he served on antisubmarine patrol and was torpedoed off Dunkirk. He has business interests in chemicals, brewing, and engineering.

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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 : Middlesbrough West

CANDIDATE : Fothergill

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Fothergill is president-elect of the Liberal Party. Aged 43, he is a native of Dewsbury, and was educated at Bootham School, York. He is a woollen manufacturer, and founder and governing director of a firm with branches at Dewsbury and Edinburgh. During the war he was appointed a labour and welfare adviser in industry.

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