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 : Portsmouth Langstone

CANDIDATE : Knight

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Knight, born 1891, is national organizer of the National Seamen’s Union. Has been an errand boy, an engine cleaner on the G.W.R. at Newport (Mon.), a docker, and a seaman. He joined the I.L.P. in 1910 and transferred in 1933 to the Labour Party, and is a member of its national executive. In 1942 he was district secretary for the Mersey area of the National Seamen’s Union.

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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 : Reading North

CANDIDATE : Mackay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ronald Mackay sat for North-West Hull in the 1945 Parliament. During the war he joined the Common Wealth Party and became its national chairman, but rejoined Labour in 1944. Aged 46, he was born in Australia and is a London solicitor. He is a prominent advocate of European cooperation, and was a member of the British delegation to Strasbourg 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 : Romford

CANDIDATE : Clarke

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Clarke, aged 33, was educated at Oldham Hulme Grammar School and Manchester University, where he was president of the Union. He is a physicist, and during the war worked on research for the Ministry of Supply. He is deputy secretary of the Institute of Physics.

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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 : Salford East

CANDIDATE : Hardy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. Hardy, a native of Salford, began work as a barber’s boy and organized a local hairdressers’ union. Entering the Salford City Council in 1922, he is a former mayor, and is ” father ” of that body. He is area secretary of the Hospital and Welfare Services Union. He is aged 60, and was first elected in 1945 for Salford 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 : Sheffield Heeley

CANDIDATE : Beckerlegge

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Beckerlegge, aged 33, is a director of a family business of tool and gauge makers largely engaged in the export trade and is secretary of the local Liberal 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 : Southampton Itchen

CANDIDATE : Hobart

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir R. H. Hobart is a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy. He served in destroyers in the last war until he lost an eye in operations off the coast of Italy. Debarred from further service afloat, he was employed on instructional duties at Portsmouth. Aged 35, he comes of a famous political family, being a descendant of John Hampden.

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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 : Southport

CANDIDATE : Ellington

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Ellington, a surveyor and director of a Chester firm of contractors, was born in Blackburn in 1909. Before the war he was in practice in Liverpool, and, as a reserve officer, was called up to the Royal Engineers and served in India and Burma until 1946.

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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 : Stoke-on-Trent North

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Davies was elected for the Burslem division in 1945. He is aged 50, and is a native of Stoke. Formerly a railway clerk he is chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent Railway Clerks’ Association, and has been president, secretary and treasurer of the North Staffordshire Trades Council. From 1943 to 1945 he was a member of the Stoke City 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 : Sutton and Cheam

CANDIDATE : Wheeler

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. Wheeler, aged 30, received a secondary school education and took a London University Diploma in Economics. He is a costing officer and has lectured on economics to discussion groups.

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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 : Tynemouth

CANDIDATE : Colman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss G. Colman, member for the division in the last Parliament, was born in 1892, the daughter of a canon of the Church of England and was brought up in a Conservative environment, but while at Newnham College, Cambridge, she adopted Socialism. Later she became a tutor in Ruskin College and a staff tutor in London University. During the war she worked as a temporary Civil servant with the Ministry of Labour and the Board of Trade.

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