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 : Barkston Ash

CANDIDATE : Hazell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Hazell failed to win this seat in 1945 by 116 votes. Born in 1907, he has been an organizer for the Union of Agricultural Workers in Hertfordshire and Yorkshire and a member of the West Riding Agricultural Committee, and is also on the executive of the Yorkshire Council of the Labour Party. His recent appointments include membership of the Leeds Regional Hospilal Board and of the North-Eastern Electricity Consultative 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 : Normanton

CANDIDATE : Heseltine

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Heseltine, 54, a local chemist, is president of the Normanton British Legion and section commander of the special police. Past chairman of the Pharmaceu?ical Union and ex-president of the Chemists’ Federation, he was recently on a delegation on drugs which went to Germany for the Ministry of Health. He is a member of Normanton U.D.C.

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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 : Sowerby

CANDIDATE : Bryan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Bryan, born in Japan in 1913, was educated at St. John’s School, Leatherhead, and at Caius College, Cambridge, from which he holds a M.A. degree in French and Spanish. He is a director of a wholesale clothing firm. During the war he served with The Royal West Kent Regiment and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He won the M.C. while in North Africa. He unsuccessfully contested Sowerby at the 1949 by-election.

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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 : Merthyr Tydfil

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Ind. Welsh Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Morgan is aged 35, and an insurance agent in the Aberdare area. He has worked in the mines, and on the land. Twice previously he stood as a Welsh Nationalist in the Ogmore division, but has fought this election without the backing of the 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 : Anglesey

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Hughes is a soldier, and was born in Holyhead in 1916. He was at the University?College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and graduated in law in 1937. A member of the Anglesey County Council, he is also a member of the Court of Governors of the University of Wales and of the National Museum of Wales. He was Labour candidate for the constituency in 1945. He served in the R.A.F. in the last war and was a flight lieutenant.

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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 : Carmarthen

CANDIDATE : Ungoed-Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. L. Ungoed-Thomas, K.C., in the last Parliament represented Llandaff and Barry, which he captured from the Conservatives in 1945. Born in 1904, he is the son of a Baptist minister. Educated at Haileybury and Magdalen College, Oxford, he graduated with honours, and was called to the Bar in 1929. He established a large practice in the Chancery division, and took silk in 1947. During the war he was on the staff at the War Office. He was a member last summer of the British delegation to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg.

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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 : Flintshire West

CANDIDATE : Ellis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr.W. A. Ellis, a solicitor, was born in 1913 and graduated with first-class honours in law at the University College of Wales. During the war he attained the rank of major, and served at the general headquarters of India ?Command as deputy assistant director.

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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 : Ogmore

CANDIDATE : Gower

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. R. Gower, born in Neath in 1916, was educated at University College, Cardiff, and the Cardiff School of Law, and is a partner in a Cardiff firm of solicitors. He served during the war in the Royal Observer Corps and in Civil Defence. He is secretary of the Friends of Wales Society and a member of the Welsh Council of the ^United Nations Organization.

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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 : Monmouth

CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, elected M.P. for Stafford in 1938, was defeated in 1945 but won a by-election at Monmouth in October of that year. Born in 1909 ?nd educated at Eton, he went on to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1930. Four years later he became a barrister and practised on the Oxford circuit. In the ” caretaker” Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.

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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 : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Pirie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. T. Pirie, aged 28, was a fighter pilot in the war and won the 0.F.M. He graduated at Aberdeen University in engineering, and was president of the Scottish Union of Students.

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