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 : Birmingham Ladywood

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. M. Bennett, aged 31, who contested Burslem as a Liberal National in 1945, is a barrister practising on the Midland Circuit. He served in the war with The Middlesex Yeomanry, and in 1940 was commissioned in the Royal Artillery. Later he became a military experimental officer in the Petroleum Warfare Department and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He has travelled widely and is interested in foreign affairs. In the campaign against the Greek rebels he served as an observer for the Greek Government.

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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 Sparkbrook

CANDIDATE : Crump

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Crump is a toolmaker. A Birmingham man, born in 1899, he has served for many years on the district committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Joining the Communist Party in 1928, he has held various offices. During the first world war he served in the R.N.A.S., and later in the R.A.F. In 1927, and again in 1934, he was in Russia, on the latter occasion for two 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 : Blackpool South

CANDIDATE : Machin

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. Machin is a well-known figure in local Labour and Co-operative circles. For several years he was the only Labour representative on Blackpool Town Council, being defeated at the last municipal elections. He is a past president of the Blackpool Labour Party and recently of the Blackpool Co-operative Society, as well as of Blackpool Trades Council, with which he has been connected for nearly 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 : Bournemouth West

CANDIDATE : Cranborne

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscount Cranborne, born in 1916, is heir to the Marquess of Salisbury, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords. On leaving Oxford, he joined The Grenadier Guards and served from 1939 to 1945 with the Guards Armoured Division and was wounded. Later he was Military Assistant to Mr. Harold Macmillan when Resident Minister in North Africa. Since the war he has studied farming and estate management.

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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 : Brentford and Chiswick

CANDIDATE : Lucas

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. B. Lucas is 34. He joined the R.A.F. in 1939 and became a fighter pilot. He fought through the Battle of Malta, and the Spitfires he commanded formed the top-scoring squadron. Later on the staff at H.Q., Air Defence of Great Britain, he helped in the measures to counter the flying bomb. His third operational tour was in support of the allied armies in France. He is an international golfer, and was captain of the Walker Cup team which went to America last year.

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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 : Bristol North East

CANDIDATE : Apsley

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Apsley was M.P. for Central Bristol, 1943-45, filling the place of her husband, who was killed in a flying accident on active service. She is a qualified air pilot and was keenly interested in flying and hunting until an accident incapacitated her. She is lady of the manor of Iver, Bucks, director of an airways company, president of Gloucestershire Women’s British Legion, and president of Bristol Women’s Electrical Association. While M.P. she was elected national chairman of the Women’s British Legion. She has also been a senior commandant, A.T.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 : Bromley

CANDIDATE : Elliott

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. J. R. Elliott, formerly a journalist, is married to a London journalist. She has been associated with the trade union and Co-operative movement for 25 years and has toured the United States, South Africa, Europe, and wnrl lc,’ She takes an active Part m social work. She was educated in Glasgow, Manchester, and in Denmark.

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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 : Cheltenham

CANDIDATE : James

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. James, a Fellow of the Chartered Auctioneers’ and Estate Agents’ Institute and winner of the Michael Faraday prize for rating and taxation, is in a business?which he started at 21 in Blackheath, Worcestershire. He has been a local preacher for 20 years and is on the London Council of the Federal Free Church Council. He is an alderman of Rowley Regis, and a former member of Staffordshire 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 : Crosby

CANDIDATE : Bullock

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. Malcolm Bullock was member for the Waterloo division of Lancashire from -1923 until the dissolution. ? He has done much work in international, educational, and Red Cross interests. In the 1914-18 war he was A.D.C. to Lord Methuen, and was attached to the Foreign Office in 1917-18. He was born in 1890, educated in Paris and at Cambridge, and is a barrister, Inner Temple.

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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 : Dagenham

CANDIDATE : Bridges

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Bridges, a marine engineer fitter, born in Scotland, is one of the leaders of the London District Communist Party.

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