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 : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : McAlister

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. McAlister, aged 36, is a coach-builder and chairman of the Stirlingshire area committee of the Communist Party. He is president of the Scottish shop stewards’ council of the National Union of Vehicle Builders.

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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 : Ayr

CANDIDATE : Pollock

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Pollock, a native of Kilmarnock, is 56 and an insurance agent. He contested Kilmarnock as an l.L.P. candidate in 1929 and 1935. He was a Labour member of Ayr Town Council for 1945 until defeated last year. He is a member of the National Consultative Committee of Insurance Unions.

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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 : Berwickshire and East Lothian

CANDIDATE : Anstruther-Gray

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. J. Anstruther-Gray sat in Parliament from 1931 to 1945 as member for North Lanark and has held the posts of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary for Overseas Trade, and Assistant Postmaster-General. Born in 1905, a son of the late Colonel W. Anstruther-Gray, M.P., he was educated at Eton and Oxford and took a commission in the Coldstream Guards. He served in North Africa, France, and Germany with the Guards and the Lothians and Border Horse.

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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 : Fife West

CANDIDATE : Hamilton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. W. Hamilton, a school teacher, was born in 1917. Joining the Labour Party in 1936, he is specially interested in education, mining, and foreign affairs, and lectures for the W.E.A. and N.C.L.C. He served as a captain in the Middle East during the war. He contested the seat 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 : Hamilton

CANDIDATE : Monteith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. R. C. M. Monteith, a chartered accountant, is the son of a former convener of Lanarkshire, andus himself a county councillor. He served on many fronts in the war as an officer in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry.

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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 : Moray and Nairnshire

CANDIDATE : Stuart

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Stuart was born in 1897, and is the third son of the seventeenth Earl of Moray. He was educated at Eton and served in The Royal Scots in the 1914-18 war, in which he won the! M.C., and became aj brigade-major in 1918. For a time he acted as equerry to the Duke of York and entered Parliament in 1923. He was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1935 to 1941, and was Government Chief Whip from 1941 until 1945. He then became Opposition Chief Whip, a position from which he resigned in 1948 on grounds of ill-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 : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

CANDIDATE : Macdonald

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. J. F. Macdonald is a native of Cape Colony, South i Africa, and is 44. He was educated at the Royal Australian Naval College 1: 9 and at Chatswood Gram- w mar School. For some 1 years he was engaged in Hi the woollen industry, and has a wide knowledge of the export trade. He is a partner in an import and export business, and is secretary of the paint industry export group. During the war he was director and secretary of the War-time Paint Manufacturers’ Association. He has been chairman of the Liberal sub-committee studying copartnership in 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 : Bermondsey

CANDIDATE : Talbot

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss B. E. Talbot did much work with Red Cross and refugee organizations in Belgium, Italy, Turkey, and Russia during and after the 1914-18 war. Later she campaigned energetically for improvements in the conditions of merchant seamen and to gain first-hand experience served before the mast in a ” windjammer.” Also promoted the cooperative cultivation of waste ground and organized sports camps for blind soldiers from St. Dunstan’s.

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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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Curthoys

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Curthoys, aged 42, is the chairman of the Chelsea Divisional Labour Party and a member of the borough council. He is a producer of documentary films, and during the war produced 400 film-strips for the War Office. He also directed the documentary film Great Adventure, which the National Film Association presented to the Labour Party.

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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 : Greenwich

CANDIDATE : Dale

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. L. M. Dale, born in 1914, is a company director and a member of the council of Woolwich Chamber of Commerce. He served with the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy and won the D.S.O. at Anzio. As a Territorial officer he commands the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers.

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