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 : Cardiganshire

CANDIDATE : Bowen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. R. Bowen, who is a barrister, was educated at Cardigan County School, University College, Aberystwyth, St. John’s College, Cambridge, Brussels, and the Inns of Court. In 1945 he was returned to Parliament for Cardigan, and is an ex-president of the Liberal Party as well as being a member of the Liberal Party council. He has served on the Lord Chancellor’s Committee on Leasehold Reform.

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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 : Flintshire East

CANDIDATE : Currie

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. B. H. Currie, born in Northern Ireland in 1905 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, is a barrister practising on the Northern Circuit. In the war he was on the staff of Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, in Fighter Command, and served later in the legal branch of the Air Force. He has given many years’ service to local government in the Wirral peninsula.

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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 : Neath

CANDIDATE : Hope

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. Hope, born in 1909, won a scholarship to Swansea Grammar School and entered a ship repairing firm as an office boy. He is now storekeeper for the firm, and secretary of the workers’ welfare club. He is also secretary of Mumbles Conservative Association and vice-chairman of Swansea West Conservative 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 : Bedwellty

CANDIDATE : Finch

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. Finch, who is 51, is compensation secretary of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mine-workers, in whose interests he has worked for 30 years. He was a member of the 1943 advisory committee on rehabilitation (pneumo-coniosis) of coal miners in South Wales. Regarded as an expert on miners’ occupational diseases, he is a co-opted member of the social insurance committee of the T.U.C.

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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 : Aberdeen North

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Wilson, unsuccessful in the Hillhead division of Glasgow in the 1945 election, has been a member of the executive of the Liberal Party for some years. An Edinburgh advocate, he is strongly in favour of reform of electoral procedure by the use of proportional representation.

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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 : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Gilzean

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Gilzean, a retired printer, aged 71, won the seat in 1945. He served on Edinburgh Town Council for 21 years as a leading member of the Labour Party, and gave much time to housing and slum clearance and is a deputy lieutenant of the city. Wounded in the 1914-18 war, he undertook duties on the local war pensions 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 : Edinburgh South

CANDIDATE : Darling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir William Darling, a former lord-provost and city treasurer of Edinburgh, is proprietor of a drapery store and two bookshops in the city and director of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company. Born in 1885, he went to James Gilles-pie’s School, Daniel Stewart’s School, and Heriot-Watt College. He is the author of several publications, including ” The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller.”

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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 : Glasgow Central

CANDIDATE : Hutchison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. R. H. Hutchison, member for the division from 1945 to the dissolution, is a shipowner who for many years was the Glasgow representative in the Chamber of Shipping. A veteran of the 1914-18 war, in which he served with the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, he worked with the underground movement in France in the 1939-45 war, and as his features were well known to the Germans he submitted to surgical treatment which made a permanent alteration. Born in 1893, he was educated at Harrow.

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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 : Glasgow Kelvingrove

CANDIDATE : Grieve

PARTY : Scot. Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. M. Grieve is a Scottish poet and author whose works are well known under his pen name of Hugh MacDiarmid. He is a staunch supporter of everything Scottish.

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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 : Glasgow Springburn

CANDIDATE : McNicol

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. McNicol, a chartered accountant, fought the seat in 1935 and is a former president of the Springburn Unionist Association. He served in the 1914-18 war with The Highland Light Infantry and was the first to rejoin his battalion in 1939, later serving as a lieutenant-colonel in the European campaign.

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