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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley South Constituency – Biography of Russell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley South Constituency – Biography of Russell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wembley South

    CANDIDATE : Russell

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. S. Russell is 46, and research secretary of the Empire Economic Union. He graduated at Cambridge, and was formerly a journalist. He was elected to the L.C.C. three years ago, serving on the town planning, welfare, and Parliamentary committees. In 1947 he attended the international conference on Trade and Employment at Geneva, and last year was chosen as a British delegate to the Westminster economic conference arranged by the United Europe Committee and the European Movement.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Webster

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Webster

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wigan

    CANDIDATE : Webster

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. I. S. Webster, a barrister on the Northern Circuit, is 24, and lives at Rochdale. He was the first Liberal to contest Wigan since 1918. As a sub-lieutenant in the Navy, serving with the Fleet Air Arm, he was attached to the first night fighter squadron formed by the Navy and saw active service in the North Atlantic. He is a Rugby Union footballer.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton South West Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton South West Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton South West

    CANDIDATE : Hughes

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. D. Hughes was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Balliol. He is organizing secretary of the Fabian Society, and a former member of Lambeth Borough Council. He served as a lieutenant with the Royal Artillery during the war. In the 1945 election he captured West Wolverhampton from the Conservatives. He was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Education and then to the Under-Secretary of State for War.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Davies

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : York

    CANDIDATE : Davies

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Haydn Davies, who sat for the old S.W. St. Pancras seat, was the M.P. wh6 moved the motion to set up the Royal Commission on the Press. Aged 44, he is an honours:, graduate in English of the University of Wales, and studied under Mr. Hugh Dalton at the: London School of Economics. After a period! as an English teacher in London, he turned to journalism, and is an industrial correspondent.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Hurd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Hurd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newbury

    CANDIDATE : Hurd

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Anthony Hurd, son of Sir Percy Hurd, M.P. for Devizes 1924-45, was elected for Newbury in 1945. Born in 1901, he was educated at Marl-borough and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and has farmed in Wiltshire for 20 years, as well as writing on agricultural subjects. He has travelled extensively investigating agriculture in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, South Africa, the United States, and Canada, and has broadcast farming talks for the B.B.C. From 1939 to 1945 he was an assistant agricultural adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, and is a member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckinghamshire South Constituency – Biography of Dee

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckinghamshire South Constituency – Biography of Dee

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Buckinghamshire South

    CANDIDATE : Dee

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Dee, born in 1904, is a draughtsman and was president of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen in 1947-48. He held office in the Balham and Tooting Labour Party from 1924 to 1931, and since 1947 has been a member of the executive of the Southern Regional Council of the Labour Party. He is commercial manager of an engineering firm in north-west London, and in 1947 was appointed to the Council of Industrial Design.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Knutsford Constituency – Biography of Bromley-Davenport

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Knutsford Constituency – Biography of Bromley-Davenport

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Knutsford

    CANDIDATE : Bromley-Davenport

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. W. H. Bromley – Davenport was elected in 1945. His family has been linked with the House of Commons since the reign of Queen Anne, and one ancestor, William Bromley, was Speaker. He served in the Grenadier Guards until 1937 and in 1939 raised and commanded the 5th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. He was appointed a Conservative whip in 1948, and last year was made Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Kelly

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Kelly

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wirral

    CANDIDATE : Kelly

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. H. A. Kelly, an Army officer for 28 years, is now a farmer in North Wales. Born in 1899, he joined the Army from Sandhurst in 1918, and in the last war commanded West African troops in Burma.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Truro Constituency – Biography of Brinton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Truro Constituency – Biography of Brinton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Truro

    CANDIDATE : Brinton

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Brinton, aged 47, was educated at Haileybury, and is a London publisher. For many years before the war he was associated with the League of Nations Union, and is the author of several books. He has visited Spain several times, taking on one occasion an unofficial delegation from the British churches ; and in Jamaica he helped to found a Council for Civil Liberties. In the later years of the war he had a farm near Totnes.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : High Peak Constituency – Biography of Halsall

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : High Peak Constituency – Biography of Halsall

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : High Peak

    CANDIDATE : Halsall

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. McC. Halsall was born at South-port in 1906 and educated at ?erchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, Lancashire. He is a manager with a firm of calico manufacturers. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.

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