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 : Ilford North

CANDIDATE : Hutchinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Hutchinson, K.C., sat for Ilford from 1937 until 1945. Born in 1893, he served in the 1914-18 war and, as a territorial, he was mobilized in 1939 and served through the campaign in France, including the Dunkirk evacuation. He was appointed deputy assistant secretary to the War Office in 1941, but resigned in 1942 to resume his Parliamentary duties. He has been an alderman of the London County Council since 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 : Kingston upon Hull East

CANDIDATE : Pursey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. H. Pursey served nearly 30 years in the Royal Navy and was the first naval officer promoted from the lower deck to become an M.P. Born in 1891, he joined the Navy as a seaman boy in 1907. In the 1914-18 war he served with the Dover Patrol and the Grand Fleet and was at the Battle of Jutland. Commissioned in 1917, he was in the Black Sea operations 1919-20 and also served in Somaliland and Mesopotamia. He was retired in 1936. A lecturer and journalist, he was first elected for East Hull 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 : Leeds North East

CANDIDATE : Bidgood

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. Bidgood was born in London in 1914 and is a steel constructional engineer and export agent. He was educated at Dulwich College and Oxford. He joined the R.A.F. in 1939 and later was seconded for constructional work on aerodromes and Mulberry harbours. He is a member of the Institute of Export and of Leeds City 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 : Leeds West

CANDIDATE : Mather

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Mather, who reduced the Labour majority in West Leeds by 10,000 at the by-election in July, 1949, was born in Leeds in 1914. Ed ucated at Leeds University, he became a schoolmaster, but left that profession to enter the family beer and wine business. During the war he worked for the Admiralty on research into magnetic and acoustic mines.

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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 : Leigh

CANDIDATE : Whiteley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Whiteley, a barrister, is in the unusual position of being a member of two councils—Salford City and Prestwich Borough. Born in 1903, he is a partner in a firm of electrical engineers and contractors. He is also chairman of a Salford motor company. He is associated with Salford Royal Hospital, and is a past chairman of the Lancashire Fusiliers Cadet Welfare Committee.

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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 : Liverpool Kirkdale

CANDIDATE : Keenan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Keenan is an alderman and ex-mayor of Bootle, and has long been connected with the trade union movement, first with the National Union of Railwaymen and later with the Transport and General Workers’ Union. He has been the member for Kirkdale since 1945. He joined the Labour Party in 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 : Liverpool West Derby

CANDIDATE : Kirby

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. V. Kirby represented the Everton division from 1935 until it disappeared in the redistribution. He served for five years in the 1914-18 war and was awarded the D.C.M. Now 62 years of age, he has been for many years a leading personality in the Liverpool 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 : Manchester Exchange

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. D. Griffiths, who won Moss Side from the Conservatives in 1945, is a consulting ophthalmic optician in Wythenshawe. Born in 1912, he was educated at an elementary school and privately. He served over three years in the Middle East and was with the 8th Army at El Alamein. He is chairman of the Manchester branch of the Socialist Medical 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 : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Dean

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss F. Dean is 32, and for many years was secretary of the Manchester Equitable branch of the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, and its delegate to the Manchester and Salford Trades Council, of which she was recently a vice-president. For the past three years she has been a delegate to the T.U.C. She is on the national executive of the Lancashire and district committee of the Communist 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 : Newcastle-under-Lyme

CANDIDATE : Mack

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. D. Mack, born in Liverpool 50 years ago of working-class parents, spent some years in Leeds, and then returning to Liverpool was elected to the City Council in 1928 and remained a member for 18 years. He was returned unopposed at Newcastle under Lyme in 1942 on the elevation to the peerage of the late Lord Wedgwood. A former insurance agent, he is national leader of the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers.

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