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 : Wednesbury

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. N. Evans, born in 1898, started work with a Birmingham firm of chartered accountants, but after returning from four years’ service in the 1914-18 war he established a moulding sand business. From 1939 to 1945 he was a road transport organizer and became M.P. for the division in the latter year. He is chairman of a publishing society.

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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 : West Ham South

CANDIDATE : Young

PARTY : L

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. G. Young was born in 1913 at Pembroke, South Wales. He is a public relations consultant and has been director of publicity for the National Playing Fields Association, and P.R.O. of an organization to provide residential clubs for young men. He was a founder member of the Institute of Public Relations.

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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 : Wimbledon

CANDIDATE : Deacon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Deacon, born in 1893, was a student of commerce at Reading University. He is a company secretary and director, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. He is a former hon. secretary of Ilford Trades Council, and was chairman of Caver-sham Labour Party for seven years. He is on the Surrey County Council, and a member of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ 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 : Worcester

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Evans is a school teacher. When he left school at 14 he worked in one of the anthracite mines in South Wales. After four years of soldiering he returned to his former occupation, and then gained admission to a training college where he qualified as a school teacher. He has been associated with the administration of the Co-operative Society for many years. He is a former president of the Llanelly Divisional Labour Party. He lives in Carmarthenshire.

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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 : Bedfordshire South

CANDIDATE : Fearnley-Whittingstall

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Fearnley-Whittingstall, K.C., is Recorder of Grantham and deputy chairman of Bedfordshire quarter sessions. When only 26 he contested Seaham against Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the 1929 election. He£corn-manded the 18th Indian L.A.A. Regiment in the last war and was mentioned in dispatches.

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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 : Aylesbury

CANDIDATE : Harman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. S. Harman farms 440 acres in the division. He is 37, and is 6ft. 6in. tall. He read agriculture at Cambridge, and is a pioneer in the use of the two-shift system of milking. He is a member of the county A.E.C., chairman of the British Socialist Agricultural Society, and a past chairman of Chesham N.F.U. and of Aylesbury Labour Party.

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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 : Cheadle

CANDIDATE : Hatton-Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. G. Hatton-Jones is 53 years of age and lives at Mellor, of which he is a native. A Baptist minister, for many years he served in London, where he did much social work in the slums of the East End. He is the minister of Wycliffe Baptist Church, Disley. Before he entered the ministry he was a textile representative. He served in the Army in the 1914-18 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 : Runcorn

CANDIDATE : Vosper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. Vosper was born at Heswall, Cheshire in 1916, and was edu-caled at Marlborough and Pembroke College, Cambridge, of which he is a B.A., taking his degree in natural science and political economy. He is with a firm of Liverpool exporters. He served in the Army during the late war and was second in command of the 5th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. He was demobilized with the rank of major. In 1946 he was agent to the Knutsford Division Conservative 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 : Cornwall North

CANDIDATE : Roper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Harold Roper is a native of Exeter and_ was awarded his rowing blue when he was at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He served for over 30 years on the administrative staff of an oil company in Burma and in India, where he was general manager. He served for some years in the Upper and Lower Houses of the Burma Legislature. During the first world war he served in France and Italy and was awarded the M.C. ; and in the second war he was responsible for maintaining oil supplies to the forces in Burma and for the demolition of oilfields and refineries during the retreat, and although a civilian was mentioned in dispatches. He was knighted in 1945.

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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 : Workington

CANDIDATE : Sibley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. C. G. Sibley is a B.A. of London University and is on the staff of Cockermouth Grammar School. Fie was born in 1947, in Northamptonshire, educated at Christ’s Hospital, and during the war was a captain in the R.A.S.C.

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