CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derby South
CANDIDATE : Irving
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. Irving, a native of Derby, is 33. After education at Derby School and Clifton College, he entered journalism, but later studied law and qualified as a solicitor. He Practises in Derby.
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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 : Ealing South
CANDIDATE : Neary
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Neary is a graduate of London University and lecturer in economics at Regent Street Polytechnic. He is also a lecturer for the Fabian Society and the W.E.A.
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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 : Enfield East
CANDIDATE : Davies
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Ernest Davies is a journalist and won Enfield from the Conservatives in 1945 with a majority of 11,690. Forty-five years of age, he is a son of Alderman A. Emil Davies, of the L.C.C. He was educated at Wycliffe College, Gloucester, and in 1922 went to the United States of America to obtain newspaper work. He returned to Britain in 1924. During the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. McNeil, th? Minister of State. He took a prominent part in debates on road and rail transport.
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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 : Gateshead East
CANDIDATE : Clift
PARTY : C. & Nat. L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. Clift was born in 1916, both his parents being school teachers. After leaving Oxford he practised as a solicitor. He was chairman of the Lancaster Division of Young Conservatives, and is keenly interested in the scout movement.
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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 : Halifax
CANDIDATE : Pickles
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. Pickles is the elder brother of Wilfred Pickles, the broadcaster. Born in 1901 he was articled to a local architect, and for the past 20 years has been in practice on his own account. As chairman of the Halifax housing committee he opened last summer its one-thousandth post-war house. During the war he became chairman of the civil defence committee.
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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 : Hastings
CANDIDATE : Cohen
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. Cohen, a native of Hastings, was born in 1897, and is managing director of a building society in Brighton. He was elected to the town council in 1930. He is a former chairman of the Brighton and Hove I.L.P. and the Brighton and Hove Fabian Society. He farms at Hangleton, Sussex.
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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 : Hornchurch
CANDIDATE : Bing
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Geoffrey Bing, who was the first M.P. for Hornchurch, was for a time a Government whip, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party Defence and Services Group, and chairman of the House of Commons branch of the British Legion. Born in 1909, he is a barrister and was one of the founders of the National Council of Civil Liberties in 1934. During the war he served in North Africa and Europe and was wounded.
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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 : Ilford North
CANDIDATE : Alexander
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. W. Alexander, a financial journalist, formed the City of London Free Trade Club and contested the City of London as an independent Free Trade candidate in 1945. He was private secretary to Lord Beaverbrook in 1910, and worked with him at the Ministry of Information in the 1914-18 war.
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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 : Kingston upon Hull East
CANDIDATE : Dalton
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. E. Dalton, a gunnery officer with Coastal Command, R.A.F., during the war, was born in 1909 in Leeds. His father, the late Mr. E. E. Dalton, fought S.W. Hull in 1945. A lecturer on economics and industry, he is interested in trade union questions and is a signatory of the Free Trade manifesto.
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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 : Leeds North East
CANDIDATE : Ramelson
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. B. Ramelson, a Yorkshireman, is a law graduate from the Canadian University of Alberta. He joined the Communist Party in 1936 and served for 18 months with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. during which time he was twice wounded. He also served in the last war and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery. He is secretary of the Leeds Communist Party.
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