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 : Hendon South

CANDIDATE : Sargant

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Sargant, born in 1905 and a manager of a firm of non-ferrous metal merchants, was a Liberal until 1931 and contested a North Portsmouth by-election in 1943 and the East Hants division in 1945 as a Commonwealth candidate. He joined the Labour Party in 1945, and later was vice-chairman of the Hampstead Labour 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 : Huddersfield East

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Smith has taken a prominent part in trade matters on behalf of his fellow Yorkshire coal merchants. He was for a time ” Uncle John ” in the Northern children’s hour of the B.B.C., and also a member of a concert party. He served with the 57th Division in the 1914-18 war, and in the second world war with the Huddersfield Civil Defence organization.

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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 Hull Central

CANDIDATE : Hewitson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Hewitson, born in 1897, served with j The Northumberland I Fusiliers, 1914-16, The j Yorkshire Regiment, j 1916-20, and the Pioneer ! Corps, 1940-45. He is a national industrial officer of the General and Muni-cipal Workers’ Union, J and won Central Hull in j 1945. Secretary of the | International General Workers’ Federation, he has also served on the Labour Party national executive. He was educated at Ruskin College? Oxford.

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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 : Leeds Central

CANDIDATE : Barford

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Barford was born in Leeds in 1894, and is a schoolmaster. For over 30 years he has been in the Leeds education service. He served in the first war from 1914, and was invalided out in 1918. In the 1945 election he contested South Leeds as a Liberal, but has since become a Conservative.

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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 : Leeds South East

CANDIDATE : Kirwin

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. E. Kirwin, born in Leeds in 1907, is a schoolmaster. He is chairman of the Leeds Catholic Consultative Committee. Joining the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in 1939 as a private, he rose to the rank of captain.

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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 : Leicester South West

CANDIDATE : Russell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. D. Russell is the first woman to stand for a Leicester division. Born at Woodhouse, Yorkshire, she is welfare officer to a Leicester engineering company. She is the only woman member of the Leicester City Council.

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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 : Liverpool Garston

CANDIDATE : Raikes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. V. Raikes was born in 1901, educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and called to the Bar in 1924. He unsuccessfully contested llkeston in 1924 and 1929 and was elected for South-East Essex in 1931. In 1945 he was returned for Wavertree, Liverpool, which has disappeared under the redistribution. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.V.R.

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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 : Liverpool Wavertree

CANDIDATE : Hamling

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Hamling unsuccessfully contested Southport in the 1945 election. He was born in Kirkdale in 1916, graduated from Liverpool University, served with the Royal Marines for five years, and after the war became an organizer and tutor in the Adult Education movement.

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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 : Manchester Clayton

CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Thorneycroft, who was elected for Clayton in a by-election in 1942 and re-elected in 1945, is a hairdresser and a former president of the National Federation of Hairdressers. Born in 1892, he served in the 1914-18 war, and in 1923 was elected to Manchester City Council, of which he is an alderman. A former Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Air, he is also on the Police Counc.l.

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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 : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. Hill, who has lived all her life in Manchester and has been a member of the city council for 14 years, is 52. Since 1943 she has been Manchester Organizer of the W.V.S. She has also been chairman of the local Poppy Fund Committee, the Health Committee?of the city council, and the South Manchester Hospital Management Committee.

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