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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Richmond Constituency – Biography of Watt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Richmond Constituency – Biography of Watt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Richmond

    CANDIDATE : Watt

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir George Harvie Watt, K.C., has been M.P. for Richmond since 1937, and represented Keighley 1931-35. During the war he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Churchill. He was a member of Kensington Borourfr Council from 1934 to 1945, and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey in 1942. He was educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1930, practising in London and on the N.E. Circuit. He is actively interested in the Territorial Army and is a director in several companies. He was given a baronetcy in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rotherham Constituency – Biography of Foster

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rotherham Constituency – Biography of Foster

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rotherham

    CANDIDATE : Foster

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. M. Foster, aged 55, was for 17 years a school teacher. Until two years ago she had been national propaganda officer of the Old Age Pensioners’ Association. She is chairman of Rotherham Women’s Liberal Association and of the Independent Traders’ Alliance.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Attercliffe Constituency – Biography of Hynd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Attercliffe Constituency – Biography of Hynd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Attercliffe

    CANDIDATE : Hynd

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. B. Hynd, former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is 48, and was a railway clerk before being returned unopposed in 1944. He speaks several languages, and during the war regularly broadcast to Germany, France, and Italy. From 1945 to 1947 he had Ministerial responsibility for the British side of the Control Commission in Germany and Austria, and from April to October, 1947, he was Minister of Pensions.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Park Constituency – Biography of Mulley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Park Constituency – Biography of Mulley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Park

    CANDIDATE : Mulley

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Mulley, 31, joined the Labour Party and the National Union of Clerks in 1936. He served in The Worcestershire Regiment during the war and spent fiye years in captivity in Germany. He passed various examinations and was awarded an adult scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, and took first class honours in philosophy, politics, and economics. He was awarded a research studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge. He contested the Park Division as an official nominee of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southend East Constituency – Biography of Minney

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southend East Constituency – Biography of Minney

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southend East

    CANDIDATE : Minney

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. J. Minney, aged 52, a former journalist, is engaged in the film industry as a producer. He is a member of the Fabian Society, and a lecturer for the Labour Party on film publicity.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockport North Constituency – Biography of Watson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockport North Constituency – Biography of Watson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stockport North

    CANDIDATE : Watson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. M. Watson, a member of Stockport Town Council since 1945, is 51, and is general secretary of the Lancashire Community Council and N.W. Regional Officer of the National Council of Social Service. He has been closely associated with social service and youth movements, and is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is a former president of Stalybridge and Hyde Labour Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stretford Constituency – Biography of Austin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stretford Constituency – Biography of Austin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stretford

    CANDIDATE : Austin

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. L. Austin represented the division from 1945 until the dissolution. Born in 1911, he started work at the age of 11 as a carpenter and became works manager and later a director of an aircraft factory. He joined the Royal Navy in 1943 and served on the staff at Fleet Air Arm headquarters. In the House of Commons he has served on Labour Party Committees for Defence and the Services.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Torquay Constituency – Biography of Briscoe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Torquay Constituency – Biography of Briscoe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Torquay

    CANDIDATE : Briscoe

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Briscoe, a Londoner, aged 34, is education secretary to Plymouth Co-operative Society. He has been an organizer for the National Council of Labour Colleges and has been lecturer for the Co-operative Union at summer schools. Born in 1914, he went to a secondary school and Oriel College, Oxford, and holds an Oxford University diploma for economics and political science.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallasey Constituency – Biography of Hindle

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallasey Constituency – Biography of Hindle

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wallasey

    CANDIDATE : Hindle

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. L. Hindle, history master at a Warrington school and a W.E.A. tutor on current affairs, was born in 1920. His father was Labour agent at Stafford and for 24 yea’rs at Warrington, where his son followed him as editor of a local Labour journal. An ex-R.A.F. bomber pilot, he is a Rugby Union player, active in sports and youth welfare.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warrington Constituency – Biography of Park

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warrington Constituency – Biography of Park

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Warrington

    CANDIDATE : Park

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. C. Park, managing director of a Liverpool firm of motor engineers, is 54. As a keen gardener he runs a small nursery on semi-commercial lines. His firm practises a system of co-partnership.

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