Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

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.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Acton

CANDIDATE : Willment

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Willment, who lives at Isleworth, was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth, and started work in a surveyor’s office. He gained his A.M.I.C.E. and at 21 began a civil engineering firm. His father and uncles direct a well-known firm of constructional engineers. In 1946 he was the only Conservative to be elected to Middlesex County Council for Heston and Isleworth.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barrow-in-Furness

CANDIDATE : Sugden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Wilfrid H. Sugden has had a long experience of Parliamentary life, having first represented Royton, 1918-23. Later he sat for The Hartlepools, 1924-29, and W. Leyton, 1931-35. Aged 61, he was educated at Waterloo School and London University, and was called to the Bar in 1928. He later became a constructional engineer, and devoted much time to social and public work in Lancashire.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bexley

CANDIDATE : Hart

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. E. Hart, a City bank clerk, was born in 1916. She claims direct descent from Sir Humphrey Davy and has travelled extensively.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Hall Green

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aubrey Jones, with few early material advantages, gained scholarships which took him to the London School of Economics, where, at the age of 22, he was at the top of the first-class honours list Taking up journalism as a career he was a foreign correspondent until his work was interrupted by war service. In 1948 he became political officer to Sir Andrew Duncan at the British Iron and Steel Federation.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Perry Barr

CANDIDATE : Boyle

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Edward Boyle, who is 26 years of age, was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and was President of the Oxford Union. He comes of a family with a notable record in public and political work. His father, an authority on foreign affairs, was British High Commissioner for Serbia from 1914 to 1918.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn East

CANDIDATE : Leavey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Leavey, 35, is a director of a weaving and spinning concern in Colne, and managing director of another business at j^elson. During the war he served with the tnmskilling Dragoons in France and Belgium oetore the retreat and returned to France with l«em soon after D Day. He held the rank of major on demobilization. He is chairman of uie Gisburn branch of the Skipton Conservative Association.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolton West

CANDIDATE : Tillotson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. L. Tillotson, aged 30, is the youngest son of Mr. F. L. Tillotson, chairman of Tillotsons Newspapers, Limited, Bolton. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. Joining the Army in 1939 he served in France and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. Later commissioned in the R.A.S.C., he served mostly with armoured aivjsions and was eventually on headquarters staff of 30th Corps. On demobilization he Joined the family firm.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford East

CANDIDATE : Green

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Green, a miner, born in Bradford in 1907, was at one time a member of the Yorkshire divisional council of the Labour Party. He was active in hunger marches of the unemployed in the ’30s, and in the great Yorkshire woollen strike. Later, he joined the Communists and is their Yorkshire district organizer.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighton Pavilion

CANDIDATE : Teeling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Teeling, aged 47, has been one of Brighton’s two representatives in Parliament since 1944, when he won a by-election. He has interested himself in foreign affairs, and has travelled extensively in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan. He studied unemployment in America, Canada, and Europe, and in 1933 he led a deputation of British unemployed to Rome, where they were received by the Pope. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html