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 : Newcastle upon Tyne North

CANDIDATE : Herbert

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Herbert was born in 1905, the son of Sir Jesse Herbert, one of the leaders of the Liberal campaigns of 1906 and 1910. Educated at Westminster and University College, Oxford (where he was president of the Union), he joined the B.B.C., and was programme director for the Malaya Broadcasting Corporation until two days before the Japanese took Singapore, from which he escaped. Until the end of the war he was in charge of political broadcasting for S.E.A.C. Appointed secretary of the Liberal Central Association in 1947, he became director and chief agent.

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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 : Nottingham East

CANDIDATE : Gluckstein

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. L. H. Gluckstein, K.C., was member for the division from 1931 until 1945. Born in London in 1897, son of one of the founders of J. Lyons and Co. and Salmon and Gluckstein, Ltd., he was educated at Oxford, where he took an honours degree in jurisprudence. He was wounded in the 1914-18 war, and in the last war served with the British Expeditionary Force in France. Subsequently he was an A.Q.M.G. and a Deputy Director in the War Office. A barrister since 1922, he took silk 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 : Oldham West

CANDIDATE : Horobin

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. M. Horobin, aged 49, is a son of the late Principal J. C. Horobin, Homerton College, Cambridge, and from 1931 to 1935 represented Central Southwark. He was at Sidney ?ussex College, Cambridge, and took an honours degree in economics. In 1918-19 he was a flight lieutenant; he served in the Far East with the R.A.F. in the 1939-45 war as a squadron leader, and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. In 1923 he refounded the Mansfield House University Settlement, Albert Dock, London, and has lived there for the past 23 years as warden.

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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 : Poole

CANDIDATE : King

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. M. King was member for Penryn and Falmouth in the last Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. Born in 1907, he was educated at Cheltenham and Cambridge, became assistant master at Bedford School, and was head master of Clayesmore School until he entered Parliament in 1945. He joined The Gloucestershire Reginient in 1940 and rose to the rank of acting lieutenant-colonel.

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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 : Pudsey

CANDIDATE : Banks

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. C. Banks was educated at Sheffield j council schools and the j university, and is an | associate member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institute of Transport. In 1926-29 he was chief engineer to a public transport undertaking in India; in 1939 became transport officer to the Ministry of Food, N.E. Division ; and in 1943 chief supply officer to the War Office. He has served on the West Riding County Council.

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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 : Rochester and Chatham

CANDIDATE : Bottomley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. Bottomley was Secretary for Overseas Trade and previously Under – Secretary for Dominion Affairs in the last Government. He was born in 1907, and at the age of 21 was elected to Walthamstow Borough Council, and later became an alderman and mayor. He has been organizer for the National Union of Public Employees, and during the war became deputy regional commissioner for the S.E. region.

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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 : St Helens

CANDIDATE : Shawcross

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Hartley Shawcross, K.C., entering Parliament for the first time in 1945, went direct to the Treasury bench as Attorney-General. He was born in Germany in 1902, of British parents, but was brought to England as a baby and educated at Dulwich College and Geneva. As a junior barrister he was in chambers in Liverpool with Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe, a former Attorney-General. He was chairman of the Aliens Tribunal in 1939 and of the Catering Wages Commission and for three years during the war Commissioner for the North-Western Region. At each meeting of the Assembly of the United Nations he has been one of the principal delegates from the United Kingdom, and at the Nuremberg trials of the major war criminals he was chief British prosecutor. A former recorder of Salford, he is now recorder of Kingston on Thames.

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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 : Sheffield Hallam

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Jones, born in 1902, is a joiner and a shop steward, and last July became national organizer of Liberal trade unionists. He is chairman of Rotherham Liberal Association and has also been a Baptist lay preacher and a Sunday school superintendent for many 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 : Southall

CANDIDATE : Andrews

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Andrews, a motor-body maker, was born in 1898. He founded the Spelthorne Liberal Association and for 21 years has been the organizing secretary, and was Liberal agent for the Spelthorne division in the 1945 election. A sergeant-major in the Coldstream Guards in the 1914-18 war, he was an officer in the Home Guard in the last war. He is president of the Yiewsley and West Drayton branch of the United Nations Association.

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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 : Southgate

CANDIDATE : Ellenbogen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Ellenbogen was born in Liverpool in 1917 and won many awards and distinctions at Cambridge. He served six years in the R.A.F. as an officer in the Intelligence Branch, and was later called to the Bar. He was a Bacon scholar of Gray’s Inn, and Barstow scholar of the Inns of Court. He is an author and lecturer on legal matters, as well as a practising barrister.

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