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 : Aberdeenshire East

CANDIDATE : Boothby

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Robert Boothby has been member for the constituency since 1924. He was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Churchill when the latter was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1926 to 1929, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food in the early part of the last war. He has been a conspicuous backbench speaker in debates on financial and economic affairs and a champion of the virtues of herring as a food. Born in 1900, he was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.

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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 : Bute and North Ayrshire

CANDIDATE : MacAndrew

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Charles MacAndrew has held the || seat since 1935, and -was previously M.P. for B Kilmarnock, 1924-29, and for the Partick division of Glasgow, 1931-35. Born in 1888, he was educated at Uppingham and Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as chairman of many Standing Committees of the House of Commons, and for a time in 1945 was Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. He has been a member of the Racecourse Betting Control Board since 1938.

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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 : Berwickshire and East Lothian

CANDIDATE : Stodart

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Stodart, aged 33, was educated at Wellington College, started farming at the age of 18, and has made a study of the economics of arable farming. He is vice-chairman of the Scottish Liberal 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 : Fife West

CANDIDATE : Fraser

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. W. N. Fraser was born in 1917, and is managing director of an Edinburgh printers and book publishers. He is a former hon. sec. of the Scottish 1946 Club, and thus became connected with political work. During the war he served in the ranks with the Royal Corps of Signals, and was then commissioned in the R.A.O.C. He attained the rank of major.

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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 : Lanark

CANDIDATE : Dunglass

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lord Dunglass, heir to the Earl of Home, lost his seat to Mr. Steele in 1945 after holding it since 1931. In the ” caretaker ” Government he was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and has been Parliamentary private secretary to several Ministers, including the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain. He has close family ties with the division and is a former president of the Scottish Unionist 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 : Moray and Nairnshire

CANDIDATE : Murray

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Murray is the son of a fisherman, and was educated at Buckie High School, the Theological College, Selly Oak, Birmingham, and Ruskin College, Oxford. He was formerly employed on the Glen Affric Hydro-Electric Scheme, and later was in the Post Office and in the Department of Agriculture for Scotland. During the war he served in the Intelligence Corps in North Africa and Italy. He is 30.

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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 : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

CANDIDATE : Scott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lord William Scott, who was born in 1896, is the second son of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the Army as a career. While serving with a cavalry regiment in the 1914-18 war he was awarded the M.C., and in the last war he was military secretary to Field-Marshal Lord Alexander. He was elected M.P. for Roxburgh and Selkirk in 1935.

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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 : Bethnal Green

CANDIDATE : Holman

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Holman was elected for S.W. Bethnal Green in 1945. Born in 1891 and educated at Mill Hill and the London School of Economics, he has been a member of Middlesex County Council and Teddington TJ.D.C. He was sometime lecturer for the Workers’ Educationa Association. He was a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party groups on finance and 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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Gorsky

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. J. A. Gorsky, educated at King’s College, and a gold medallist of Westminster Hospital, has practised for 30 years in Westminster. He is also a barrister, deputy coroner for East and West Middlesex, divisional police surgeon of the London ” A ” division, and on the central council of the British Medical Association. His wife contested Swindon as a Liberal.

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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 : Hackney South

CANDIDATE : Butler

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Butler: was elected for South Hackney in 1945. He is a former mayor of the borough, and has been a member of the council since 1928 ; he is chairman of the housing committee, and has also been leader of the council. Aged 51, he is a company director, and vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations.

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