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 : Buckinghamshire South

CANDIDATE : Belfrage

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Bruce Belfrage, who took an honours degree at Oxford in modern languages, started his career as an actor, was a broadcaster in the early days of 2LO at Savoy Hill, and in 1935 joined the B.B.C. as a casting director and later became a news reader and announcer. He enlisted in the R.N.V.R. in 1942, and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant-commander. He was born in 1901.

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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 : Knutsford

CANDIDATE : Bromley-Davenport

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. W. H. Bromley – Davenport was elected in 1945. His family has been linked with the House of Commons since the reign of Queen Anne, and one ancestor, William Bromley, was Speaker. He served in the Grenadier Guards until 1937 and in 1939 raised and commanded the 5th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. He was appointed a Conservative whip in 1948, and last year was made Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire.

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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 : Wirral

CANDIDATE : Kelly

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. H. A. Kelly, an Army officer for 28 years, is now a farmer in North Wales. Born in 1899, he joined the Army from Sandhurst in 1918, and in the last war commanded West African troops in Burma.

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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 : Truro

CANDIDATE : Brinton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Brinton, aged 47, was educated at Haileybury, and is a London publisher. For many years before the war he was associated with the League of Nations Union, and is the author of several books. He has visited Spain several times, taking on one occasion an unofficial delegation from the British churches ; and in Jamaica he helped to found a Council for Civil Liberties. In the later years of the war he had a farm near Totnes.

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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 : High Peak

CANDIDATE : Halsall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McC. Halsall was born at South-port in 1906 and educated at ?erchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, Lancashire. He is a manager with a firm of calico manufacturers. During the war he was a flight lieutenant 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 : Devon North

CANDIDATE : Peto

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. C. H. M. Peto comes of a family with many Parliamentary associations, his father, grandfather, and brother having been members. He entered Parliament for the old Barnstaple division in 1945. Educated at Harrow, he was commissioned as a Regular Army officer in 1918 and saw much service in the last war, becoming chief liaison officer to the allied contingents on Field-Marshal Montgomery’s staff. He has been chairman of the Conservative Party Disability Pensions Committee. In the last Parliament he introduced a Bill for the protection of animals from cruelty.

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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 : Dorset North

CANDIDATE : Crouch

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. F. Crouch is a farmer and comes from a farming family which has been connected with North Dorset for 300 years. He has been a member of the county executive of the Wilts and Dorset branch of the National Farmers’ Union. From 1939, he was a member of the Machinery Committee of the Wilts War Agricultural Executive Committee, and introduced mechanical corn growing to Wiltshire.

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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 : Consett

CANDIDATE : Glanville

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Glanville has represented Consett since 1943. Born in 1891, he received an elementary education and worked in the mines. He was president of a miners’ lodge for 25 years, and a member of the executive of Durham Miners’ Association. He joined the Labour Party in 1906, and lives at Stanley, Co. Durham.

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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 : Isle of Ely

CANDIDATE : Legge-Bourke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. E. A. H. Legge-Bourke, a Regular officer educated at Eton and Sandhurst, served through the war and was released in 1945 when he won this constituency from the Liberal member, Mr. James de Rothschild. He has served on several Parliamentary committees and is interested in land drainage, being vice-president of the Association of Drainage Authorities.

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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 : Harwich

CANDIDATE : Train

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Train, aged 53, has been actively associated with the Liberal Party for more than 30 years, and is chairman of the Essex County Liberal Association and on the executive of the Home Counties Liberal Federation. He served with the K.R.R.C. during the war.

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