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 : Taunton

CANDIDATE : Hopkinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Hopkinson, born in 1902, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, had a long career in the diplomatic service from 1924, serving in Washington, Cairo, Athens, and Lisbon, and was Deputy High Commissioner in Italy in 1944. After the war he took up farming in Devon and also became head of the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat.

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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 : Burton

CANDIDATE : Lyne

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Lyne, who was born in 1884, represented Burton in the last Parliament, having a majority of 760 votes. Until 1914 he was a boot and shoe operative, and after four years’ service in the 1914-18 war became an officer of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. The first chairman of the Northampton Labour Party, he was mayor of that borough for the year 1938-39, and is an alderman. He has been a member since 1920.

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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 : Eye

CANDIDATE : Chadwick

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. L. Chadwick, formerly a teacher, was later an active worker in the Transport and General Workers’ Union, and joined the Communist Party in 1937. She was the first Communist member of the West Suffolk County Council, and her husband has been a Communist member of Leiston U.D.C. for 10 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 : Surrey East

CANDIDATE : Whine

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Whine is a B.Sc. of the London School of Economics. He was born in 1910 and joined the Labour Party in 1932. A member of Marylebone Borough Council, he is also chairman of the local Labour Party, a member of the Fabian Society, and of the London Co-operative Society. He served in North Africa during the late war. Up to the election he was a temporary Civil servant, a position he resigned in order to become a candidate.

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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 : Reigate

CANDIDATE : Vaughan-Morgan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. K. Vaughan-Morgan, born in 1905, is a son of the late Sir K. P. Vaughan-Morgan, who was M.P. for Fulham from 1922 until his death in 1933. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was successively chairman and president of the East Fulham Conservative and Unionist Association. He was a member of the Chelsea Borough Council from 1928 to 1931, and has represented Chelsea on the London County Council since 1946. He served in the Welsh Guards during the war and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

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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 : Arundel and Shoreham

CANDIDATE : Beardmore

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Beardmore is 33 and an insurance company superintendent formerly at Little-hampton and now at Sunningdale, Berks. An active worker for the Liberals for some years, he was a member of the Chichester Division executive, 1946-48. He served with the R.A.S.C. during the war, reaching captain’s rank.

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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 : Stratford-on-Avon

CANDIDATE : Profumo

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. D. Profumo was member for the Kettering division from 1940 to 1945, but lost the seat at the last General Election. He was born in 1915, and educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford. During the last war he was air staff officer at Field-Marshal Lord Alexander’s headquarters in Italy, and crossed the Alps to bring the German plenipotentiaries to sign the unconditional surrender terms in Italy. Later he was Chief of Staff to the United Kingdom Mission in Japan.

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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 : Devizes

CANDIDATE : Cave

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. E. Cave, aged 41, farms 2,000 acres in the division and has served on local authorities and on the Wiltshire County Council. He joined the Fabian Society in 1943 and the Labour Party in 1945. He is specially interested in social welfare, particularly the youth movement.

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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 : Beverley

CANDIDATE : Odey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. W. Odey was returned for the old Howdenshire division in 1947. Born in 1900, he went to Faversham Grammar School and University College, London, and in 1925 joined a firm of tanners and leather merchants, of which he rose to be managing dir;ctor. He received the C.B.E. in 1945 for war work for the Government.

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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 : Thirsk and Malton

CANDIDATE : Turton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Turton was born in 1903, and is a barrister, and a farmer and landowner. He entered the House of Commons in May, 1929, as Member for Thirsk and Malton, a division which has been represented by a Turton for an unbroken spell of 36 years. He succeeded his uncle, the late Sir Edmund R. Turton, who was a member from 1914 to 1929. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1926. He served with The Green Howards in the last war, and was a lieutenant-colonel attached to G.H.Q., M.E.F.

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