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 : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

CANDIDATE : Macdonald

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. J. F. Macdonald is a native of Cape Colony, South i Africa, and is 44. He was educated at the Royal Australian Naval College 1: 9 and at Chatswood Gram- w mar School. For some 1 years he was engaged in Hi the woollen industry, and has a wide knowledge of the export trade. He is a partner in an import and export business, and is secretary of the paint industry export group. During the war he was director and secretary of the War-time Paint Manufacturers’ Association. He has been chairman of the Liberal sub-committee studying copartnership in 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 : Bermondsey

CANDIDATE : Warwick

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Warwick, aged 46, is a director of a firm of tobacco importers, in which he started his working life as an office boy. Born and brought up in Bermondsey, where he lived for 26 years. He served as a captain with a tank transporter company in Europe 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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Webbe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir H. Webbe, born in 1885, represented the Abbey Division of Westminster from 1939. After leaving Cambridge he became a master at Oundle and St. Paul’s Schools, and later a school inspector, in the 1914-18 war he held appointments in the Ministry of Munitions. Afterwards he took up a commercial career and is a director of several companies. He was elected to the L.C.C. in 1925, and has served as chairman of the education and general purposes committees. From 1934 to 1945 was leader of the Municipal Reform Party on the 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 : Greenwich

CANDIDATE : Gilbey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. D. Gilbey, who is 38, is a director of W. and A. Gilbey. He served in the R.A.F.V.R. during the war, and was invalided out in 1941. He was British Roller-Skating Figure Champion from 1930 to 1934, and on the Council of the British Olympic Association. He has travelled extensively in Europe in connexion with business 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 : Hampstead

CANDIDATE : Gore

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Gore, son of a miner in South Wales, is 25, and joined the Communist Party while at college, tn 1943 he became a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, and saw service in the Far East. On demobilization he became an L.C.C. teacher, and now works in St. Pancras. Last year he was secretary of Hampstead Communist 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 : Kensington North

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Carey Evans, aged 26, is a barrister. He is the eldest son of the late Sir Thomas and Lady Carey Evans, and grandson of the first Earl Lloyd-George. Educated at Oundle and New College, Oxford, he served as a bomber pilot during the war and was awarded the D.F.C. This is his first political contest.

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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 : Lewisham North

CANDIDATE : Copeman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. B. Copeman was born in 1907, and was left an orphan at the age of seven. Educated at Dr. Barnardo’s School, he spent 11 years in the Royal Navy. For a time a member of the Communist Party, he joined the International Brigade in Spain in 1936 and later commanded the British battalions. He was decorated for A.R.P. work in the last war. Joining the Labour Party in 1944, he was chairman of Lewisham Housing Committee 1945-49, and is president of Lewisham Trades 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 : Paddington South

CANDIDATE : Myer

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Myer, a barrister specializing in commercial law, was born in 1907, and was educated at the Grocers’ Company School, London School of Economics, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He rowed for his college, and?his crew won its oars in the Lent races of 1927. During the war he was a squadron leader in the R.A.F.

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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 : Southwark

CANDIDATE : Greenwood

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Greenwood, born in 1902, began work as an assistant in a library, but took up advertising and is chairman and managing director of a Fleet Street advertising firm. He is connected with many local organizations, and is the founder of the Southwark Chamber of Commerce. He unsuccessfully contested South-east Southwark in 1945, and Central Southwark at a by-election in 1948.

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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 : Wandsworth Clapham

CANDIDATE : Lowndes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. L. Lowndes was born in New Zealand in 1911. He worked there as a schoolmaster and on irrigation and farm mechanization projects, and in 1936 became an insurance broker in London. He served in Egypt and Libya in 1940-41, and was captured by the Afrika Korps. He contested the constituency unsuccessfully in 1945. He is a partner in the family business.

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