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 : Wallasey

CANDIDATE : Marples

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Marples, who won Wallasey from an Independent in 1945, was born in Manchester in 1907, After qualifying as an accountant, he started business as a builder with £20 borrowed capital, and achieved financial independence in 10 years. He is now managing director of a firm of civil engineering contractors. Sportsman and mountaineer, he played football for Dulwich Hamlet.

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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 : Warrington

CANDIDATE : Neep

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. L. Neep is 44, and leaving school at 13 took spare-time technical and commercial courses. After working in the building and steel trades he became managing director and editor of a London publishing house. He next started business as an underground mining contractor, which ceased on nationalization, and he then turned his full-time attention to politics.

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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 : West Bromwich

CANDIDATE : Dugdale

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. John Dugdale, who was returned unopposed in 1941 and re-elected in 1945, when he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. He is 44. Educated at Wellington and Oxford, he has been an attache at the British Legation, Peking, a journalist, war correspondent, and private secretary to Mr. Attlee.

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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 : Willesden East

CANDIDATE : Done

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Done, born in Cheshire in 1901, has lived in Willesden for 20 years. Starting as office boy with a City firm of tobacco importers, he is now head of the business. A freeman of the City of London, he is a liveryman of the Gardeners’ Company. He is a former vice-president of Willesden Liberal 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 : Woodford

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Davies is a chartered accountant in East London and is chairman of the Epping Liberal Association and a member of the executive committee of the United Nations Association’s eastern region. He served during the war in the Royal Navy, and is aged 36.

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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 : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Humphrey

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Humphrey, aged 65, was in the 1929 campaign in charge of Liberal Party publicity. An authority on agriculture, he was for 14 years in the Department of Agriculture for Ireland. During the war he was responsible for an organization concerned with the aircraft industry.

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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 : Windsor

CANDIDATE : Nicholson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Nicholson, born in 1914, took an honours degree in modern history at Oxford, taught in a grammar school in East Ham, and was an adult education tutor. In 1949, she was teaching in Nigeria. Assistant secretary of the Fabian Colonial Bureau and a member of the Labour Party Imperial Advisory Committee, she has made a special study of Indian problems.

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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 : Wycombe

CANDIDATE : Law

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Law, born in 1926, the son of a bank manager, was commissioned in the 10th Royal Hussars in 1945 and served with the Rhine Army until 1948, when he returned to Oxford to study philosophy, politics, and economics. He joined the Oxford University Liberal Club, and became its president.

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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 : Macclesfield

CANDIDATE : Harvey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Air Cdre. A. V. Harvey, who is 43, has been M.P. since 1945. Before the war he formed the Flying Training School at Hongkong. In 1939 he commanded one of the first fighter squadrons to go to France, and later commanded a Fighter Sector in the Battle of Britain. Vice – chairman of the Conservative Party committee on civil aviation, he was also chairman of an all-party committee interested in the silk industry.

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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 : Bodmin

CANDIDATE : Marshall

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Marshall, an insurance company director, born in 1906. has been M.P. since 1945. A former commander, R.N.V.R., he was on the staff of the Allied Naval Commander from 1944. Before the war he was at the Admiralty as banking and financial adviser to shipping.

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