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 : 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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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 : Stockton-on-Tees

CANDIDATE : Gamble

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. Gamble, aged 29 and a native of Derbyshire, is a secondary school teacher and a part-time lecturer at Dagenham Technical College. At Reading University he took a degree with honours in history and political theory. During the war he was an interpreter serving with the Free French naval forces.

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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 : Sunderland South

CANDIDATE : Kitchell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. Kitchell, an optician in Newcastle, was born in 1920 and has lived on Tyneside all his life. During the war he spent six years in the Royal Navy, three of them as a rating, served with a destroyer flotilla based on West Africa, and took part in the invasion of Sicily with the naval commandos. He read theology at Cambridge after the war and graduated.

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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 : Twickenham

CANDIDATE : Stonehouse

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Stonehouse, who was born in 1925, is studying at the London School of Economics. He joined the R.A.F. during the war, trained as a pilot, but became an education officer. As international secretary of the Association of Labour Student Organizations he has visited most European countries and the United States.

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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 : Walthamstow East

CANDIDATE : Wallace

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Wallace, born in 1885, has been a candidate in every General Election since 1918, at Bury until 1924, and in Walthamstow since. He represented East Walthamstow from 1929 to 1931, and from 1945. He was chairman of the Postmen’s Federation in 1918 and secretary of the outdoor grades of the Union of Post Office Workers until 1945. He is an alderman of Lambeth Borough Council.

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