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 : Dudley

CANDIDATE : Farran

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. R. A. Farran was born in India in 1921 and educated there and at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the 3rd Hussars, and in an adventurous service career gained many decorations including the American Legion of Merit and the Croix de Guerre. In 1948 he went to Southern Rhodesia, where he is a director of several companies, returning in October last after offering to contest Dudley for the Conservatives.

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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 : Eccles

CANDIDATE : Proctor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Proctor won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Formerly a railway worker, Mr. Proctor is a former branch secretary of the National Union of Rail-waymen, and was once its representative on the International Transport Federation. He was born in 1896.

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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 : Exeter

CANDIDATE : Maude

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr.J.C. Maude, K.C., entered Parliament for Exeter in 1945. He is a son of Sir Cyril Maude, the actor, and was born in 1901. . Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 1925. From 1939 until 1944 he was Recorder of Devizes, and then became Recorder of Plymouth. He took silk in 1943. At the outbreak of the second world war he became an officer in the Intelligence Corps, serving in this country and for 12 months in Washington as security officer for various British missions. Returning to England in 1942, he was employed in the Cabinet offices.

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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 : Gosport and Fareham

CANDIDATE : Nobes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. R. Nobes, born in 1905, is a shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard. He attended the Dockyard Upper School and later the Municipal College for Naval Architecture. He was chairman of the Gosport Labour Party in 1928. He has served on the Gosport Borough Council since 1934, was mayor from 1946 to 1949, and was a member of the Hampshire County Council from 1943 to 1949.

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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 : Harrow West

CANDIDATE : Littlewood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. L. Littlewood, aged 42, is general secretary of the B.B.C. Staff Association. He has been a trade unionist since he was 15, when, on the early death of his father, he had to relinquish a scholarship to Hull Grammar School and became a clerk with the L.N.E.R. He subsequently took a B.Sc. (Econ.) degree with honours. He became deputy-general secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union in 1942, and took up his present appointment three years ago.

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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 : Hendon South

CANDIDATE : Lucas-Tooth

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, member for the constituency since 1945, represented the Isle of Ely from 1924 to 1929. Born in 1903, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and called to the Bar. When the first baronet died, having lost all his sons in France during the war, the King granted a re-creation of the baronetcy in favour of his eldest grandson, H. V. H. D. Warrand, the present holder, who assumed the name and arms of Lucas-Tooth.

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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 : Huddersfield East

CANDIDATE : Mallalieu

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu was elected for Huddersfield in 1945. He has been Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Food and the Secretary of State for Air. He served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945, and wrote several books on his experiences. Aged 41, he was president of the Oxford Union in 1930, and an Oxford Rugby blue. He later worked for a number of years as a London journalist.

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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 : Keighley

CANDIDATE : Walker

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Walker, aged 36, is a former Coastal Command pilot and squadron leader, who won the D.F.C. for anti-submarine work in the North Atlantic. A blanket manufacturer at Mirfield, he is a vice-president of the Yorkshire Area Liberal Federation and president of the Dewsbury League of Young Liberals. He was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and holds an honours degree in economics.

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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 : Leeds Central

CANDIDATE : Porter

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Porter, a native of Liverpool, won the seat from National Labour in 1945. He is a joiner, and a member of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers. A vice-chairman of the Liverpool Trades Council, he has been for over 30 years prominent in the trade union movement. He was engaged with the Ministry of Labour during the 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 : Leeds South East

CANDIDATE : Milner

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. James Milner, Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy-Speaker of the House of Commons from March, 1943, till June, 1945, and again since September, 1945, was born in 1889 and is a Leeds solicitor. Educated at Leeds University, he was elected for South-East Leeds in 1929 and has been returned ever since. He was a major in the 1914-18 war and was wounded. For his services he was awarded the M.C. and bar. Deputy Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1928, he has also been chairman of the Leeds Labour Party and president of Leeds Law Society. He is a Privy Councillor and deputy-li;utenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. For 4£ years he has been chairman of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and led the British delegation to Ceylon, presenting the Speaker’s Chair and Mace there.

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