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 : Brigg

CANDIDATE : Staniland

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. F. Staniland, aged 35, is a native of Boston, where his father and grandfather were successively town clerk, and which his grandfather represented in Parliament as a Liberal M.P. Educated at Rugby and Cambridge, he served in the war with The Lincolnshire Regiment, being wounded in Italy and gaining the M.C. He is a director of a London publishing company, and the author of a satire on Socialism, ” Back to the Future.”

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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 : Norfolk Central

CANDIDATE : Medlicott

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. F. Medlicott was first elected to Parliament as member for East Norfolk in 1919 as a Liberal National. He was a Territorial lance-bombardier in the Royal Artillery when called up in 1939, and rose to become a Brigadier in 21st Army Group. He was born in 1903 in Taunton, and articled to a local solicitor. He now practises in London.

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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 : Yarmouth

CANDIDATE : Cornwell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Cornwell, formerly an insurance broker, is interested in many property and estate companies in the south of England. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals during the war. He is vice-president of the South Bucks Liberal Association, and he was a member of the Albany Club Sports Committee which raised £10,000 for the National Playing Fields Association.

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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 : Berwick-upon-Tweed

CANDIDATE : Davis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Davis, a Co-operative Society branch manager, was at the bottom of the poll in the 1945 contest. He was educated at an elementary school, and is aged 52. For many years he has worked for the Shop Assistants’ Union, and in the local boys’ club, British Legion, and W.E.A. He is chairman of the local development board and for 16 years was a member of Amble 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 : Mansfield

CANDIDATE : Ellis

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. L. Ellis, who is 47 and a former miner, was refused employment at the pits after the 1926 strike, but was recently elected checkweighman. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, and became a staff-sergeant. A member of Hucknall Co-operative Society for 29 years, and now a director, he joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was its organizer in 1941-42.

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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 : Oswestry

CANDIDATE : Wait

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. Wait, a Monmouthshire farmer born 40 years ago, and educated at council and grammar schools, is founder and secretary of the British Socialist Agricultural Society. He serves on the county agricultural executive committee and is a past chairman of Pontypool branch of the National Farmers’ Union and of National Union of Agricultural Workers. He travels the country to explain Labour’s agricultural policy, and is active in Sunday school and Free Church work.

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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 : Wells

CANDIDATE : Archibald

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Archibald contested Bath in 1945. After securing an honours degree in history and economics at Cambridge, she became a trade boaid inspector in sweated industries, and has since travelled in Europe and America and has undertaken research work at Harvard and in Oxford. She founded a child guidance clinic in North-West London. In 1946 she was elected to the London County Council, and among other appointments is chairman of its Children Committee.

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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 : Leek

CANDIDATE : Speir

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. M. Speir, a solicitor and merchant banker with a London firm, was born in 1910, and was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Chairman of the University Conservative Association in 1931, he was chairman of the Chelsea Junior Imperial League the following year and acted as an honorary secretary to Sir Samuel Hoare when Secretary of State for India. Since 1946 he has been an officer of the City of London Conservative Association. He served in the Army during the war and became a lieutenant-colonel.

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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 : Sudbury and Woodbridge

CANDIDATE : Hare

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Hare is the brother of the Earl of Listowel. He was born in 1911, spent 10 years in the United States. A member of the L.C.C. since 1937, he is the youngest alderman. His special interests are housing and agriculture. In the last war he served with the First and Eighth Armies in North Africa and received both British and U.S. decorations. He is a Suffolk dairy farmer.

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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 : Epsom

CANDIDATE : Hardie

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. M. Hardie is 38, and was educated at Oxford, where he was president of the Union. He gained his M.A. and D.Ph. degrees, winning a first-class honours in modern history. From 1937 to 1939 he was a teacher of political science at the London School of Economics and later worked for the Unemployment Assistance Board and as assistant secretary to the Royal Commission on Workmen’s Compensation. He was at the War Office during the war and is employed in a buying office of a London store.

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