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 : Wrexham

CANDIDATE : Richards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Richards, 64, has represented Wrexham continuously since 1935. He first won the seat in 1922 and was Undersecretary for India in the first Labour Government. He also sat in the 1929-31 Parliament. Son of a miner, he became head of the Economics Department of the North Wales University College, Bangor, and a tutor in economics and political science at Coleg Harlech.

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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 : Barry

CANDIDATE : Emlyn-Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Emlyn-Jones was born in 1923 and educated at Charterhouse. He is the sales manager for a manufacturing company and chairman of the Cardiff Young Liberals. During the war he served in the R.A.F. in Bomber Command.

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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 : Merionethshire

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Emrys Roberts, who was born at Caernarvon, became a solicitor in 1936 and a barrister in 1944. He served in the Royal Air Force during the war, was elected for Merioneth in 1945, and has been a member of Parliamentary delegations to Yugoslavia, Germany, and Rumania. He was president of the Liberal Party of Wales, and served the National League of Young Liberals similarly in 1946-48.

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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 : Montgomeryshire

CANDIDATE : West

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. West, who was born in 1894 and worked as a coal miner for 20 years, is trade union and labour organizer for the Wales and Monmouthshire Conservative Association. In the 1914-18 war he was for two years a prisoner in Germany.

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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 : Dundee East

CANDIDATE : Bowman

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Bowman, an engine driver, aged 36, is a native of Dundee who joined the Young Liberals in 1935, but left to join the Communist Party in 1940. He is a member of the party’s Scottish executive and secretary of Dundee Trades 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 : Edinburgh Leith

CANDIDATE : Frew

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. M. Frew is the eleventh of a family of 14, and although his nine brothers followed their father in the shipbuilding industry he became the owner of a drapery business. Aged 35, he went to Victoria School, Newhaven, and Leith Academy. Before the war he took a keen interest in youth welfare and the Boys’ Brigade. He joined, the Territorial Army i? 1939, served at Dunkirk, and was commissioned in 1942.

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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 : Glasgow Bridgeton

CANDIDATE : Kelly

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Kelly, 45 years of age, was born in the Gorbals district of Glasgow and is a railway worker. He is one of the six representatives of the National Union of Railway men who visited Russia in 1946. He is chairman of his trade union branch, on the executive of the district council of the union, and a delegate to the Glasgow Trades 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 : Glasgow Govan

CANDIDATE : Laughlan

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Laughlan, a building trade worker, is secretary of the Communist Party in Glasgow. He joined the I.L.P. in 1933 but resigned two years later.

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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 : Glasgow Scotstoun

CANDIDATE : Bargh

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Bargh was born in 1905, graduated at Glasgow University and is a science teacher. A keen cooperator, he has been a member of the national committee of the Co-operative Party, and chairman of the Glasgow Co-operative Association. He joined the Labour Party in 1940.

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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 : Greenock

CANDIDATE : McColl

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. McColl contested Dumfries in 1945. Joining the Liberal Party at 16, he was elected two years later to the executive of the Scottish Liberal Federation and became hon. secretary at the age of 23. He served as an aircrew member with Coastal Command. Aged 34, he is night editor of a Scottish national newspaper.

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