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 : Dartford

CANDIDATE : Dodds

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Dodds, aged 47, received his education in a village school in Co. Durham. When elected in 1945 he was publicity manager for the Co-operative Wholesale Society. During the war he held commissioned rank in the Home Guard which gave service in the East End during the blitz. He was the organizer of the C.W.S. trades exhibitions in England.

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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 : Droylsden

CANDIDATE : Armitage

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. K. Armitage left the Labour Party in 1938 after being an active member, and joined the Liberal Party in 1944. His father was a pioneer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, and his mother is ex-president of the Labour Party women’s organization in Oldham. He is 39, was educated in elementary schools, and is a printer’s auctioneer and valuer.

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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 : East Ham South

CANDIDATE : Young

PARTY : Soc. Party of Great Britain

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Young, a science teacher, was born in 1901 and has been a meniber of the N.U.T. A member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain for 12 years, he has been on the party executive and was once central organizer. He is one of the party’s two candidates.

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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 : Eton and Slough

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Smith, aged 35, is a Cambridge M.A. with an honours degree in mathematics and English literature. He took up teaching for a time, but subsequently joined the staff of the International Peace Campaign. He is now a scientific worker with a Slough firm. For the past seven years has been a moving spirit in the Communist Party in Slough.

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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 : Gosport and Fareham

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. F. B. Bennett was born in 1911 and was educated at Winchester and Oxford and St. George’s Hospital, London. He served in the war as surgeon lieutenant – commander, and was twice torpedoed, and later became a doctor in the Fleet Air Arm and served in Tanganyika and Ceylon. A well-known yachtsman, he was for two seasons helmsman of Shamrock V, and in 1949 he was a member of the British team which competed for the British-America Cup.

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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 : Harrow West

CANDIDATE : Bower

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Norman Bower, aged 42, has been in Parliament since 1941. Educated at Rugby and Wadham College, Oxford, he is a barrister of the Inner Temple. During the war he served as a private in the Intelligence Corps and later, on transfer to reserve, was appointed to the Foreign Office. He served on the Westminster City Council for many years.

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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 : Hendon North

CANDIDATE : Pollitt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. Pollitt, wife of Mr. H. Pollitt, who contested E. Rhondda in this election, won scholarships as a girl and became an L.C.C. teacher. During the General Strike she published the Party’s strike paper, and on being arrested and fined her teaching certificate was withdrawn. Since then she has been actively associated with political and social work, notably in Hendon where she lives.

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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 : Hove

CANDIDATE : Rea

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. R. Rea comes of a family with a long Liberal tradition; both his father, the first Lord Rea of Eskdale, and his grandfather, Mr. Russell Rea, sat in Parliament for many years. Mr. Rea, aged 42, has been a Socialist for 15 years, and is chairman of the Labour Party in Battle, where he keeps an hotel. During the war he served five years in the Intelligence Corps.

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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 : Keighley

CANDIDATE : Hargreaves

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. K, Hargreaves, aged 46, is managing director of a firm of coal merchants. He is a member of the council of the Leeds Incorporated Chamber of Commerce, the West Riding Territorial Army Association, and honorary treasurer of the Yorkshire Area of Conservative Association. Educated at Haileybury he commanded the 96th H.A.A., R.A., in 1939, and in 1942 was commander of the 3rd Indian A.A. Regt.

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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 : Kingston upon Thames

CANDIDATE : Maskrey

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. G. Maskrey, a native of Kingston, is 30 years old and a bachelor. He is an engineer’s draughtsman employed by an aeronautical firm. He joined the East Surrey territorials at the outbreak of war and was in France and Belgium until Dunkirk. Later he served in North Africa with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and was wounded in Italy.

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