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 : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Key

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Key, who was appointed Minister of Works in 1947 was formerly a schoolmaster. He is one of the pioneers of the Labour movement in East London, and followed Mr. George Lansbury as member for Bow and Bromley in 1940. He was on the Poplar Council for 30 years, and mayor of the borough three times. In the war he became a Civil Defence Commissioner for London, after being chairman of Poplar Civil Defence Committee. His other public work included chairmanship of the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee.

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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 : Fowler

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Fowler, born in 1901, and educated at King’s College, London, was trained as an engineer. Entering journalism, he start?d a magazine for private traders and became general director of the Council of Retail Distributors. He has travelled extensively in Europe and Canada.

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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 : Curtis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Beatrice Curtis was a lecturer at King’s College, London, until her marriage. She joined the Liberal Party during the General Election campaign of 1945 and was first chairman of the Balham and Tooting Liberal Association. She was prospective candidate for Balham and Tooting until the redistribution, and was then adopted for the Clapham division. She was born in 1903.

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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 : Accrington

CANDIDATE : Hynd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Hynd was member for Central Hackney (now absorbed in South Hackney) in the last Parliament, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, and later to the Minister of Defence. Born in 1900 in Perth, he attended Perth Academy and, after working as a railway clerk, became a branch secretary of the Railway Clerks’ Association and later a member of the headquarters staff. He has served as councillor and alderman of Hornsey.

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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 : Barnsley

CANDIDATE : Spencer

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. G. Spencer, a former National Coal Board official and advertising consultant, has held several commercial appointments in the United States and Canada, as well as in this country. Born in London, he was educated at London Uniyersity, and served in both world wars. His wife contested Nuneaton as a Conservative.

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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 : Beckenham

CANDIDATE : Monroe

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. H. Monroe, a barrister, aged 29, was born in Dublin and educated at Rugby and Oxford. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and served in India and Burma. Called to the Bar in 1948, he is a Harmsworth scholar of Middle Temple. He specializes in income-tax and revenue work.

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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 : Birmingham Erdington

CANDIDATE : Wright

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Air Cdre. A. C. Wright, the M.P. for the “vision from 1936 to 1945, is 64. He was “ucated at Winchester. After service in the urst world war he raised, in 1926, the 605 a™ a’y of Warwick) Squadron of the Auxili-year Force> which he commanded for 10 rnr>H a of which he is now hon. air com-com For four yeare from 1941 he was Trail? ant for the Midlands of the Air •raining Corps.

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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 : Birmingham Northfield

CANDIDATE : Richards

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Richards is an undergraduate at Worcester College. He is aged 23, and is a uauve of Swansea. His studies at Oxford were “terrupted by a period in the Forces, but he returned to the University in 1947. He was a SJ of the University Liberal Committee, ad h l id hilf i h y , I y °49» and has also interested himself in the university Liberal Club and the Union of university Liberal Societies.

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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 : Birmingham Yardley

CANDIDATE : Ritchie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. S. Ritchie is 58 and was apprenticed to a firm of engravers in the City of London, later working in Manchester. Moving to Bournemouth, he was employed at a royal ordnance factory in Dorset during the war. Alter being associated with the Labour Party tor a time, he rejoined the Liberals on moving to Southampton, where he has done much public speaking.

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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 : Bolton East

CANDIDATE : Holt

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. F. Holt, a native of Bolton, was born in 1914, educated at Mill Hill School and Manchester Technical College. With his two brothers he has built up in Bolton an industry new to the town. A territorial in 1939, he later became a company commander and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.

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