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 : Hampstead

CANDIDATE : Brooke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Brooke, leader of the Conservative Party on the L.C.C. since 1945, was M.P. for West Lewis-ham from 1938 to 1945. He had a large part in organizing the Conservative successes in the 1949 L.C.C. elections which produced a ” dead heat.” He was deputy chairman of the Southern Railway until nationalization, and is a member of the governing bodies of Marlborough and Charterhouse, and of the court of London University. Since 1944 he has served on the General Housing Advisory Committee. He is 46.

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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 : Islington South West

CANDIDATE : Bender

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Bender, aged 35, was employed in the building industry at the outbreak of war and afterwards served four years in the R.A.F. He is assistant secretary of the London district of the Communist Party. In 1932 he joined the hunger-march demonstrators against the Means Test.

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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 : Lambeth Vauxhall

CANDIDATE : Dyer

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Dyer was born in India in 1904, and was educated there. Later he became an insurance broker. In 1936 he became a member of Gray’s Inn and was commissioned in the R.A.F.V.R. in 1940. On demobilization he became a partner in a building firm and settled in Hampstead.

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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 : Paddington North

CANDIDATE : McClatchie

PARTY : Soc. Pty. of Gt. Britain

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. McClatchie is one of two candidates representing the Socialist Party of Great Britain, the other being Mr. Harry Young, in East Ham South.

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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 : Shoreditch and Finsbury

CANDIDATE : Rippon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Rippon, a barrister, aged 25, was elected a member of Surbiton Borough Council at 21, and an alderman at 24. He is chairman of the Finance Committee. At Oxford he was president of the University Conservative Association, and secretary and librarian of the Union. In 1943-44 he was chairman of the Federation of University Conservative Associations.

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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 : Wandsworth Central

CANDIDATE : Grant-Ferris

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Grant-Ferris, born in 1907, followed the family business of estate agents and surveyors, and was called to the Bar in t936. In the same year he won a by-election in North St. Pancras, and sat for that constituency until 1945. He served in the Air Force in Malta and in Egypt, and after demobilization ‘n 1943 returned to Parliament and was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. W. S. Morrison, Minister of Town and Country Planning until the 1945 General Election.

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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 : Woolwich East

CANDIDATE : Hancock

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Hancock, aged 66, fougnt the election as an Independent Pacifist. He is a Quaker, and he retired from business some years ago to engage in peace and Labour propaganda. He has unsuccessfully fought five Parliamentary elections as a Labour candidate. He has lived in the East End of London for 40 years.

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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 : Ashton-under-Lyne

CANDIDATE : Blackwell

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. H. Blackwell, aged 30, a clerk, is secretary of the Ashton branch of the Communist Party. He served as a sergeant in North Africa and Italy in the late war.

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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 : Bebington

CANDIDATE : Soskice

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Frank Soskice, K.C., who was elected “J 1^45 as member for the old Birkenhead East WSion’ Was Solicitor-General throughout the ~” l aniament. He was born in 1902, and is p S^at-grandson of the pre-Raphaelite painter u™ Madox-Brown. During the war he joined The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served in East Africa and the Middle East. He was educated at St. Paul’s School and Balliol, where he held an open classical scholarship ; was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1926, and became a K..C. in 1945 and a Privy Councillor in 1947.

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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 : Birmingham Aston

CANDIDATE : Doughty

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr C. Doughty, son of Sir Charles uoughty, K.C., is a barrister and practises at the Common Law Bar. Born in 1902, he was ?n?cated at Eton and Oxford. Enlisting in WO in The Coldstream Guards, he served in North Africa and Italy, and was demobilized with the rank of major. He is a keen student OI Politics and social conditions.

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