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 : Spelthorne

CANDIDATE : Temple

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Temple contested Spelthorne three times previously. A former advertisement manager for several periodicals and free-lance journalist, he has been a lecturer for the Ministry of Information and Central Office of Information. He served with the R.N.A.S. in the 1914-18 war, and, during the last war, toured the ” invasion coast ” lecturing on anti-invasion measures. He lives in 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 : Norfolk South

CANDIDATE : Mayhew

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. P. Mayhew, who won the seat in 1945, was appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1946 and retained the post to the end of the Parliament. Son of a former High Sheriff of Norfolk, he was educated at Haileybury and Oxford, where he won the University Economics Prize and became president of the Union. Joining the Territorial Army after Munich, he landed in France in 1939 and later served in Africa and Sicily with the commando detachment of the ” Phantom ” regiment, and with special forces from Normandy to the Baltic.

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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 : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Webb

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Webb stood as Common Wealth candidate at Daventry in 1945. He is 48 and went to elementary and grammar schools at Northampton, and is a boot and shoe manufacturer. An active worker in the Congregational Church, his main interest is the Boys’ Brigade, and he succeeded his father as chairman of Northampton Men’s Own.

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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 : Broxtowe

CANDIDATE : Bailey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. P. E. Bailey was born in 1923 and educated at Oakham School, Rutland. He was one of the youngest officer gunners serving with Bomber Command during the war, in which he lost the sight of one eye when attacked by a German night-fighter. During his service he took part in many big bombing raids. On his discharge he entered the iron and steel 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 : Banbury

CANDIDATE : Robson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. W. Robson is 45 and lives in the constituency at Middle Aston, where he farms 1,000 acres, and, in addition, is senior partner in a firm of accountants in London, Leeds, and Bradford, and of another firm of industrial advisers. He is a member of the Council of the Chartered Institute of Accountants, and is president-designate of the Institute of Costs and Works Accountants. He visited the United States last year as financial adviser to the Anglo-American Council on Productivity, and earlier acted in a similar capacity to Unrra and the International Refugee Organization.

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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 : Somerset North

CANDIDATE : Field

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Xenia Field, a journalist and playwright, was born in 1894, and educated at Ascot and in Paris. She studied economics, was a member of the L.C.C. from 1946 to last year, and is a member of the London executive council under the National Health Scheme. During the war she served at the Ministry of Supply, and has served on a Home Office advisory committee on the treatment of offenders.

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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 : Brierley Hill

CANDIDATE : Hanley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. P. Hanley, aged 33, is the first Liberal candidate in the area for over 20 years. He is a sheet-metal worker employed in a motor-car factory. He served five years in the R.A.F.

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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 : Eye

CANDIDATE : Harrison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. H. Harrison was born in 1907 and has been connected with local and national politics for 20 years. He is associated with an Ipswich publishing firm, and has been a member of the town council. During the war he commanded a battalion of The Suffolk Regiment and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.

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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 : Dorking

CANDIDATE : Richard

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. D. Richard was born in 1917, and educated at Roborough School, Eastbourne, in which town he lives and of which his father was mayor. He is director and general manager of a circuit of Sussex cinemas. Commissioned in the Territorial Army in 1937, he served throughout the last war, and was in Burma as a major in the Indian Army.

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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 : Guildford

CANDIDATE : Philpott

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. H. Philpott, born in 1897, is a prhate tutor and holds the M.A. degree in engineering from Pembroke College, Oxford. His first teaching appointment was at Dover College, and after setting up a private preparatory school be took up private teaching. Fie has been associated with the Liberals all his life. In the 1914-18 war he served in the R.N.A.S.

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