CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Melton
CANDIDATE : Kirby
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. H. Kirby stood in 1945 for Har-borough. For many years head of a motor transport company in the county, he is now retired but has interests in a local firm of agricultural merchants. He is 58.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horncastle
CANDIDATE : Maitland
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Cmdr. J. F. W. Maitland, member for the division since 1945, served in the Royal Navy until 1934, when he was retired after injuries. He rejoined the Navy in 1939 and was a gunnery officer on the submarine staff. He has actiyely engaged in local life in Essex, for which he has been deputy lieutenant, and was also a verderer of Epping Forest, and in Parliament was chairman of the Conservative sub-committee on education. He was born in London in 1903.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : King’s Lynn
CANDIDATE : Winch
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. A. Winch, a 24-year-old graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge, is the son of a Sheffield manufacturer, and is engaged on post-graduate work in anthropology. He served with Army Intelligence in the Far East and the Middle East during the war.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kettering
CANDIDATE : O’Connor
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. P. O’Connor, aged 33, a Southern Irishman who has been in Britain since 1932, served in the R.A.F. in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. He lives at Corby, near Kettering, and was a member of the executive committee of the Luton Trades Council, and is a former chairman of the Corby branch of the Constructional Workers’ Society. He is a member of the National Union of Railwaymen.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Morpeth
CANDIDATE : Turnbull
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. Turnbull, 34 years of age, is a steel worker at Consett. He started life as an office boy, and later transferred to the steel mills, where he still works. He is a member of the Consett Urban District Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rushcliffe
CANDIDATE : Redmayne
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Col. M. Redmayne, who was born in 1910, is managing director of a No?tingham firm. During the war he commanded the 14th Battalion of The Sherwood Foresters and served at Anzio. In 1944 he formed and commanded the 66th Infantry Brigade.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wrekin, The
CANDIDATE : Thomas
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. I. O. Thomas, born in 1898, went to an elementary school, and started work as a barber’s lather boy at the age of 10. After a period in the tinplate industry he went into the railway service as an engine cleaner. He won a National Union of Rail-waymen scholarship to London Labour College, and became a member of the N.U.R. headquarters staff. He has been a member of Battersea Borough Council and the L.C.C.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Weston-super-Mare
CANDIDATE : Kew
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. A. Kew, in business as a bacon curer, has been at different times a factory worker, building trade worker, farm worker, miner, tramcar conductor, cashier, and traveller. He is well known in the West Country as a Congregational preacher.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stafford and Stone
CANDIDATE : Swingler
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. T. Swingler was born on March 2, 1915, his mother being a niece of Archbishop Lord Davidson. He was educated at Stowe and New College, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. In 1936 he settled in North Staffordshire as a lecturer for the Workers’ Educational Association and the Oxford Tutorial Movements. He served with the Royal Armoured Corps in the last war, and in 1945 won Stafford from the Conservatives.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carshalton
CANDIDATE : Sharman
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Dr. S. Sharman is a Harley Street specialist in psychiatry and was educated at Glasgow University. After holding appointments as house surgeon and house physician in voluntary and municipal hospitals, studying eye, mental, and nervous disorders he secured his specialist diploma in 1938. During the war he served as a major in the R.A.M.C. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Royal Medico Psychological Association and of the British Medical Association.
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