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 : Dorking

CANDIDATE : Touche

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. C. Touche was born in 1895, and educated at Marlborough and University College, Oxford, of which he is a B.A. He is a barrister, author of two law books, and director of several city investment trusts. He has been M.P. for the old Reigate division since 1931, and in the last Parliament was on the panel of Standing Committee chairmen. Before 1931 he had unsuccessfully contested Ashton-under-Lyne and North Islington, of which his father, the late Sir George Touche, was M.P. from 1910 to 1918.

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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 : Guildford

CANDIDATE : Wilkinson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. G. Wilkinson was born in 1897 and is a Co-operative Insuiance Society agent. A member of Guildford Borough Council for 20 years, he is a former Mayor and since 1934 has been a member of Surrey County Council. Before entering the insurance business he was in the engineering trade, and at 25 was appointed district secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He has been a member of the Labour Party since 1918.

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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 : Lewes

CANDIDATE : Kingdon-Ward

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. F. Kingdon-Ward is a writer on travel and lecturer on currency reform, and a director of three companies. She has travelled extensively and has studied central European politics.

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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 : Solihull

CANDIDATE : Lindsay

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Martin Lindsay, who was elected for the division in 1945, is an author and director of companies. During the war he served in Norway and North-West Europe, and was wounded, twice mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the D.S.O. as a battalion commander. Previously he had undertaken extensive explorations in Central Africa and the Arctic. He is chairman of the Midland Union of Conservative Associations. Born in 1905, he was educated at Wellington and Sandhurst.

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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 : Chippenham

CANDIDATE : Drain

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Drain, born in 1918, gained the Bryce Memorial Scholarship in History and the Watton Scholarship at London University and studied for the Bar. A staff captain in Persia and Iraq during the war he later joined the staff of the Institute of Hospital Administrators and engaged in the organization of the National Whitley Council for health service employees. He is secretary of the Central London Fabian 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 : Kidderminster

CANDIDATE : Eccles

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. M. Eccles is a flying officer in the R.A.F.V.R., and adjutant of an A.T.C. squadron. During the war he served in the R.A.O.C., and was evacuated from Dunkirk. He was discharged from the Army and acted as welfare officer to the R.A.F. Association in Dudley.

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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 : Scarborough and Whitby

CANDIDATE : Spearman

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. C. M. Spearman, a London stockbroker, has held the seat since 1941. He was born in 1901, and educated at Repton and Hertford College, Oxford, where (as a descendant of Sir Francis Baring) he held the Baring Founder’s Kin Scholarship. He has travelled widely, and has visited the United States both on a Parliamentary mission and independently to study economic questions.

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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 : Goole

CANDIDATE : Jeger

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Jeger, member for Winchester in the last Parliament, served on Shoreditch Borough Council for 20 years and was mayor in 1937. He was organizing secretary of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee, 1936 40, helping to establish hospitals for the Republican Government, and was mentioned in dispatches in the last war. Born in 1904, he went to an elementary school and the London School of Economics.

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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 : Shipley

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Creech Jones, 59, has been Secretary of State for the Colonies fro? 1946, and previously was Under-Secretary for the Colonies. He won Shipley in 1935, and from 1940 to 1945 was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr. Bevin. From 1923 to 1930 he was an official of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, and has been organizing secretary of the Workers’ Travel Association. He is a governor of Ruskin College and vice-chairman of the British Institute of Adult Education.

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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 : Cardiff South East

CANDIDATE : Callaghan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Callaghan was elected for Cardiff South in 1945 and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport in 1947. He was born in 1912. A member of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation since 1929, he was from 1936 until recently assistant secretary. At the outbreak of war he joined the Navy as an able seaman and was later promoted lieutenant, R.N.V.R. He has visited the West African colonies and Russia, and was chairman of the Defence and Services Committee of the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1945-47.

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