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 : Bute and North Ayrshire

CANDIDATE : MacAndrew

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Charles MacAndrew has held the || seat since 1935, and -was previously M.P. for B Kilmarnock, 1924-29, and for the Partick division of Glasgow, 1931-35. Born in 1888, he was educated at Uppingham and Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as chairman of many Standing Committees of the House of Commons, and for a time in 1945 was Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. He has been a member of the Racecourse Betting Control Board since 1938.

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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 : Berwickshire and East Lothian

CANDIDATE : Stodart

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Stodart, aged 33, was educated at Wellington College, started farming at the age of 18, and has made a study of the economics of arable farming. He is vice-chairman of the Scottish Liberal 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 : Fife West

CANDIDATE : Gallacher

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Gallacher represented the constituency from 1935 to the dissolution. He was the only Communist M.P. until the General Election of 1945 made him the leader of a party of two. He was chairman of the Clyde Workers Committee from 1914 to 1918, and has been a leading member of the Communist Party and the Communist International since 1920.

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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 : Lanark

CANDIDATE : Steele

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Steele, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance in the last Parliament, is 45, and was educated at an elementary school. He is the son of a miner and became a railway clerk. Before his election to Parliament in 1945 he was a station-master. He has been a director of Lanark Co-operative Society, and in 1946 was on the Parliamentary delegation to 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 : Orkney and Shetland

CANDIDATE : Grimond

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Grimond, who is 36, is the son-in-law of Lady Violet Bonham Carter. He is a scholar of Balliol, having won there the Brackenbury History Scholarship. He also took 1st class Honours in ” Modern Greats.” He is a barrister. He reached the rank of major during the war and then worked with Unrra, leaving that organization to become secretary to the Scottish National Trust.

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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 : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. P. Thomas was born in 1896, and is a company director. He joined the Labour Party in 1926. He has held various positions in the Glasgow Parliamentary Debating Association fcr 15 years, and is a member of the Theosophical Society and founded the Young Theosophical Movement for Scotland in 1923. He is interested in international affairs, and lectured in the United States in 1947.

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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 : Holman

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Holman was elected for S.W. Bethnal Green in 1945. Born in 1891 and educated at Mill Hill and the London School of Economics, he has been a member of Middlesex County Council and Teddington TJ.D.C. He was sometime lecturer for the Workers’ Educationa Association. He was a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party groups on finance and industry.

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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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Gorsky

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. J. A. Gorsky, educated at King’s College, and a gold medallist of Westminster Hospital, has practised for 30 years in Westminster. He is also a barrister, deputy coroner for East and West Middlesex, divisional police surgeon of the London ” A ” division, and on the central council of the British Medical Association. His wife contested Swindon as a Liberal.

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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 : Butler

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Butler: was elected for South Hackney in 1945. He is a former mayor of the borough, and has been a member of the council since 1928 ; he is chairman of the housing committee, and has also been leader of the council. Aged 51, he is a company director, and vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations.

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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 : Holborn and St Pancras South

CANDIDATE : Chapman-Walker

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. J. F. Chapman-Walker was born in 1907, educated at Marlborough and the Sor-bonne, and was admitted a solicitor in 1930. He practises in London, and farms 200 acres at Ware in Hertfordshire. Mr. Chapman-Walker has travelled extensively in India, Australia, and the Far East. He served in the war in 1 he Hertfordshire Regiment, commanding an ^nglo-Australian force in the South-West Pacific.

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