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 : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Johnston

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. H. Johnston was born in Edinburgh in 1919, and was educated at the Royal High School there and at Edinburgh University. He has been in practice at the Scottish Bar since 1947. He is on the executive of the Scottish Liberal Federation and a past chairman of the Edinburgh Liberal Council. He served with the 51st Highland Division during the last war and was wounded.

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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 : Bethnal Green

CANDIDATE : Mildwater

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Mildwater, a bricklayer, was born in 1915, and has been associated with the Communist Party for 19 years. He fought with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, reaching the rank of lieutenant, and was wounded.

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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 : Deptford

CANDIDATE : Sarjeant

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Sarjeant, born in 1908, was e?ucated at Chatham House County Grammar School, Ramsgate, and a fellow student with him there was Mr. E. R. C. Heath, Conservative candidate for Bexley. Mr. Sarjeant is a chartered quantity surveyor, and during the war was surveyor in charge of two American camps and an aerodrome. Treasurer of the West Wickham Dramatic 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 : Hackney South

CANDIDATE : Betteridge

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. R. Betteridge was born in 1911, and worked in the tailoring trade until two years ago, when he became secretary of the Hackney 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 : Islington East

CANDIDATE : Wilmot

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. K. Wilmot, born in 1906 in Bo’ness, West Lothian, became a Conservative Party official in Edinburgh, and later political secretary to the Duchess of Atholl. Early in the war she was a motor driver for the Bucks police, and later became an A.B.C.A. lecturer.

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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 : Lambeth Brixton

CANDIDATE : Lipton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. M. Lipton, Who won Brixton for the Labour Party in 1945, was born in 1900 in ^underland and went to Oxford with a scholar-snip- He studied law and was called to the Bar in 1926. He became an alderman of Lambeth Borough Council. A Private in the Territorial Army before the war, ne rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. His recreation is ” giving aavice,” and he has conducted a free advice bureau m Brixton since 1933.

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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 : Lewisham South

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Jones, aged 49, is a London bus “river. He was secretary of the London Busmen’s Rank and File Movement, 1932-37, and took a leading part in the strike in 1937. Expelled from the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1937, he was readmitted in ^ 38, and became chairman of the Central Bus Committee in 1944. He was elected to the executive committee in 1943, but the rule debarring Communists from holding office in the union prevented his sitting on the committee. He is vice-chairman of the London 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 : St Marylebone

CANDIDATE : Wakefield

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir W. Wavell Wakefield became M.P. for this division in 1945, after having represented Swindon in Parliament since 1935. He was educated at Sedbergh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is a company director and on the executive of the National Union of j Manufacturers. Now 51, he is a former captain of England, Cambridge University, Middlesex, the R.A.F., and the Harlequins, and is vice-president of the Rugby Football Union.

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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 : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Solomon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. M. H. B. Solomon, is a company director in the export trade. Born in 1915, he was educated at Rugby and Cambridge, and served in the R.N.V.R. in the war, winning the D.S.C. for service in motor torpedo boats at Dunkirk and Tobruk. He was also decorated for his part in underground operations in Greece during the German occupation.

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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 : Wandsworth Putney

CANDIDATE : Alton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. B. Alton was educated at Brighton College and London University, and is 49. In the war he rose from private to major on trie General Staff. He is a director of several companies, and was responsible during the war for a number of legal publications, particularly on early war-time legislation. For five years he was president of Wembley Liberal Association.

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