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 : Southport

CANDIDATE : Ellington

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Ellington, a surveyor and director of a Chester firm of contractors, was born in Blackburn in 1909. Before the war he was in practice in Liverpool, and, as a reserve officer, was called up to the Royal Engineers and served in India and Burma until 1946.

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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 : Stoke-on-Trent North

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Davies was elected for the Burslem division in 1945. He is aged 50, and is a native of Stoke. Formerly a railway clerk he is chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent Railway Clerks’ Association, and has been president, secretary and treasurer of the North Staffordshire Trades Council. From 1943 to 1945 he was a member of the Stoke 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 : Sutton and Cheam

CANDIDATE : Wheeler

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. Wheeler, aged 30, received a secondary school education and took a London University Diploma in Economics. He is a costing officer and has lectured on economics to discussion groups.

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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 : Tynemouth

CANDIDATE : Colman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss G. Colman, member for the division in the last Parliament, was born in 1892, the daughter of a canon of the Church of England and was brought up in a Conservative environment, but while at Newnham College, Cambridge, she adopted Socialism. Later she became a tutor in Ruskin College and a staff tutor in London University. During the war she worked as a temporary Civil servant with the Ministry of Labour and the Board of Trade.

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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 : Walthamstow West

CANDIDATE : Attlee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister since 1945, and now in his sixty-eighth year, represented Limehouse in Parliament continuously from 1922 until the dissolution. He was educated at Haileybury and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1905. As secretary of Toynbee Hall he gained a wide knowledge of life among the people of East London, and he was for a year Mayor of Stepney. During the 1914-18 war he served in The South Lancashire Regiment and the Tank Corps, and retired in 1919 with the rank of major. In the first Labour Government he became Under-Secretary of State for War and in the second was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Postmaster-General. From 1935 to 1940 he was Leader of the Opposition in the House, but with the formation of the National Government he became, first, Lord Privy Seal, and later Secretary of State for the Dominions and Lord President of the Council. From 1942 he was Deputy Prime Minister. When the Labour Party were returned to power he became Prime Minister and, for a time, combined that office with the post of Minister of Defence. An outstanding feature of his period of office was the grant of self-government to India and the completion of the legislative programme included in the Labour Party manifesto at the 1945 election.

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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 : Wembley North

CANDIDATE : Dann

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Dann, an average-adjuster, was educated at Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Liberal Club in 1948. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council. Commissioned in The Welsh Guards during the war, he served in Italy and Austria with the 1st Guards Brigade. He was born in 1924.

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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 : Wigan

CANDIDATE : Dowling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Dowling contested the 1948 by-election. He is 47, a native of Wigan, and a teacher at a local school. A member of Wigan Borough Council for 18 years, he is an alderman and was mayor in 1943-44. He is on the local executive of the National Union of Teachers and is interested in social work and sport.

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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 : Wolverhampton South West

CANDIDATE : Powell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Powell is a Birmingham man, and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. For two years he was Professor of Greek at Sydney University. During the war he saw service with the Army, and was a brigadier. After the war he joined the Conservative Party secretariat and was joint head of the home affairs section.

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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 : York

CANDIDATE : Hylton-Foster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. B. Hylton-Foster, K.C.,aged 44, is the son-in-law of the Speaker. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is Recorder of Hudders-field and Chancellor of the Dioceses of Ripon and Durham. He was legal secretary to Lord Finlay at the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1928, and deputy judge advocate in North Africa and Italy during the war.

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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 : Abingdon

CANDIDATE : Dunman

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Dunman, aged 38, was educated at Marlborough and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1938 he gave up an appointment with the London and North Eastern Railway to work as an organizer for the Communist Party, and he is now the Party’s national organizer for agriculture. He contested this division in 1945.

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