CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Thanet
CANDIDATE : Wrong
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. J. Wrong is aged 32 and a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, stationed at Chatham as education officer. He previously served in the R.A.F. and in the Colonial Office.
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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 : Chorley
CANDIDATE : Adams
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss F. Adams, a personnel manager in a Nottingham firm, was during the war female labour officer at Chorley royal ordnance factory. In 1948 she was made Ministry of Supply regional labour manager for the northwest. Aged 45, and educated at St. Edmund’s College and the University of Liverpool, she was for some years a voluntary social worker in the slums of Liverpool.
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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 : Huyton
CANDIDATE : McGree
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. McGree, a joiner, is president of the north-west region of the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives and of the Mersey District Confederation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trade Unions. He is a member of the Communist Party national executive.
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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 : North Fylde
CANDIDATE : Robinson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. W. Robinson, born in 1898, has many interests in the fishing industry. He was president of Fleetwood Fish Merchants’ Association for record period, 1940-47, and for two years chairman of the Federation of British Port Wholesale Fish Merchants’ Associations. He is also chairman of companies of trawler managers and wholesale fish merchants. He was educated at the Grammar School, Grimsby, and has served on Grimsby Town Council since 1945.
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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 : Harborough
CANDIDATE : Symington
PARTY : Ind.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. N. H. Symington, farmer and company director, aged 46, was educated at Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge. He has been a member of Market Harborough U.D.C. since 1946. Twelve years ago he crossed the Sahara Desert on a motor-cycle. In December, 1949, he published a seven-point policy, which included the abolition of P.A.Y.E.
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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 : Brigg
CANDIDATE : Staniland
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. M. F. Staniland, aged 35, is a native of Boston, where his father and grandfather were successively town clerk, and which his grandfather represented in Parliament as a Liberal M.P. Educated at Rugby and Cambridge, he served in the war with The Lincolnshire Regiment, being wounded in Italy and gaining the M.C. He is a director of a London publishing company, and the author of a satire on Socialism, ” Back to the Future.”
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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 : Norfolk Central
CANDIDATE : Medlicott
PARTY : Nat. L. & C.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Brig. F. Medlicott was first elected to Parliament as member for East Norfolk in 1919 as a Liberal National. He was a Territorial lance-bombardier in the Royal Artillery when called up in 1939, and rose to become a Brigadier in 21st Army Group. He was born in 1903 in Taunton, and articled to a local solicitor. He now practises in London.
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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 : Yarmouth
CANDIDATE : Baker
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. C. Baker, born in 1892, gained his cricket blue at Cambridge and occasionally played for Sussex some years ago. After service in the 1914-18 war he became a staff captain at the Army School of Instruction, Shorncliffe, and later took an appointment in Malaya. After the second world war, in which he was an Army instmctor, he was a senior history master at Bedford School for two years before returning to Cambridge to join the extra-mural board.
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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 : Berwick-upon-Tweed
CANDIDATE : Carr
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir A. Comyns Carr, K.C., who was M.P. for East Islington, 1923-24, was British prosecutor at the Tokyo war guilt trials and recently prosecuted von Manstein. Born in 1882 and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1908, and took silk in 1924. He is part author of books on national insurance, mining legislation, and world currency.
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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 : Mansfield
CANDIDATE : Robinson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. H. P. Robinson, born in Bradford, is 41 and lives at Mansfield. A chemist, he is chief pharmacist to Mansfield Hospital. He is secretary and former chairman of the local Liberal Association. At one time he was an amateur boxer.
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