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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eye Constituency – Biography of Harrison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eye Constituency – Biography of Harrison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eye

    CANDIDATE : Harrison

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. J. H. Harrison was born in 1907 and has been connected with local and national politics for 20 years. He is associated with an Ipswich publishing firm, and has been a member of the town council. During the war he commanded a battalion of The Suffolk Regiment and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorking Constituency – Biography of Richard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorking Constituency – Biography of Richard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorking

    CANDIDATE : Richard

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. D. Richard was born in 1917, and educated at Roborough School, Eastbourne, in which town he lives and of which his father was mayor. He is director and general manager of a circuit of Sussex cinemas. Commissioned in the Territorial Army in 1937, he served throughout the last war, and was in Burma as a major in the Indian Army.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Guildford Constituency – Biography of Philpott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Guildford Constituency – Biography of Philpott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Guildford

    CANDIDATE : Philpott

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. H. Philpott, born in 1897, is a prhate tutor and holds the M.A. degree in engineering from Pembroke College, Oxford. His first teaching appointment was at Dover College, and after setting up a private preparatory school be took up private teaching. Fie has been associated with the Liberals all his life. In the 1914-18 war he served in the R.N.A.S.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Arundel and Shoreham Constituency – Biography of Cuthbert

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Arundel and Shoreham Constituency – Biography of Cuthbert

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Arundel and Shoreham

    CANDIDATE : Cuthbert

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. N. Cuthbert, mayor of Bexhill, 1936-42, was elected for Rye in 1945. He is 60, was trained in banking in Scotland and London and held executive posts with the Imperial Bank of Persia for 21 years. After serving in the Army 1914-19, he was elected to Bexhill Council, and in 1943 was given the freedom of the borough. He resigned his county council seat on election to Parliament.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Solihull Constituency – Biography of Camp

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Solihull Constituency – Biography of Camp

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Solihull

    CANDIDATE : Camp

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. N. Camp, who is in his twenty-fourth year, was educated at Bradfield and Oriel College, Oxford, winning an open scholarship. During the war he served with the 6th Airborne Division in Palestine. He returned to Oxford on demobilization to continue his studies, and while there was chairman of the Labour Club.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chippenham Constituency – Biography of Collins

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chippenham Constituency – Biography of Collins

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chippenham

    CANDIDATE : Collins

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. G. Collins is a director of 15 building companies and companies concerned with the export trade to south-east Europe. He was chairman of the technical committee responsible for the aluminium prefabricated house, and has been associated with the Ministry of Aircraft Production and the Ministry of Works. He was born in 1906.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcestershire South Constituency – Biography of De la Bere

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcestershire South Constituency – Biography of De la Bere

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Worcestershire South

    CANDIDATE : De la Bere

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. De la Bere has been member for Evesham (which forms the major part of this new constituency) since 1935. He is a managing director of Hay’s Wharf, Limited, and other companies, and an alderman and past sheriff of the City of London. His sharp ejaculations criticizing Ministerial replies to questions have long been a feature of question hour in the House of Commons.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Scarborough and Whitby Constituency – Biography of Taylor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Scarborough and Whitby Constituency – Biography of Taylor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Scarborough and Whitby

    CANDIDATE : Taylor

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Taylor, who was born near Leeds in 1917, took his B.Sc. degree with first-class honours at Leeds University in 1938, and has since been employed as an industrial chemist by a Leeds firm. He was treasurer of Leeds University Socialist Society, and is an active member of the Association of Scientific Workers. From 1945 to 1949 he was a member of Pudsey Borough Council, and has been president of the divisional Labour Party organization.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Goole Constituency – Biography of Farey-Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Goole Constituency – Biography of Farey-Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Goole

    CANDIDATE : Farey-Jones

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. W. Farey-Jones is a company director, air line operator, aircraft manufacturer, aviation consultant, and insurance b oker. He was responsible for fitting Wellington bombers with anti-magnetic mine devices. A Freeman of the City of London, he was born in 1904 and educated at Carmarthen and abroad. For 20 years he has studied politics in European capitals.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shipley Constituency – Biography of Lupton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shipley Constituency – Biography of Lupton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shipley

    CANDIDATE : Lupton

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. A. Lupton, aged 37, is an accountant, and is a member of a well-known local Liberal family. During his nine years’ service in the Army he acted as confidential private secretary to Lord Wavell.

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