CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Ely
CANDIDATE : Jones
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. G. Jones, a 27-year-old Welshman, is reading for his final law examination at Cambridge and the Middle Temple. He served as a wireless operator-air gunner in the war and was president of Cambridge University Liberal Club in 1949.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Maldon
CANDIDATE : Moody
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. Moody, director of an engineering company, was born in 1911 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He served with the Cold-stream Guards during the war, being for some time personal staff officer to the King of Greece and later w?rking with a Commando unit in Sicily and Italy. He has studied farming at the Royal Agricultural College and is a member of Essex County Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stroud and Thornbury
CANDIDATE : Perkins
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. R. D. Perkins sat for the old Stroud division from 1931 until his defeat in 1945. He was first Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation during the war, and before that he served in the R.A.F. He was educated at Cambridge. He is chairman of Southern Newspapers, Limited. He founded the British Air Line Pilots’ Association and is chairman of the county Air Training Corps committee.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Petersfield
CANDIDATE : Dickson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Cmdr. H. H. L. Dickson is a sailor turned farmer. First going to sea from Osborne and Dartmouth in 1920, he qualified in, naval gunnery and retired in 1946 as gunnery commander, H.M.S. Excellent. Between the wars he took up farming, but was recalled to the Navy at the outbreak of war. He is now farming at Fareham, and is honorary secretary of Hants Liberal Organization.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hertford
CANDIDATE : Scutts
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. Scutts, an optician living at Bishop’s Stortford, was born in 1914. He has taken an active part in local social and political work, and has been chairman of Bishop’s Stortford Council, and of the Hertfordshire Labour Party.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Canterbury
CANDIDATE : White
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Baker White has represented Canterbury since 1945. Born in 1902, he worked as a farm labourer and circus hand in the early twenties, and later became a horticulturist and author. During 1935-38 he was engaged on secret service in Germany, escaping across the frontier from the Gestapo in 1938. He served afterwards in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office and accompanied a political mission to the Middle East.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gravesend
CANDIDATE : Acland
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir Richard Acland was Liberal member for Barnstaple from 1935 to 1945. One of the founders of the Common Wealth Party, he stood as their candidate at Putney in 1945 but was defeated, and later joined the Labour Party and won the by-election at Graves-end in 1947. Born in 1906 into a well-known west country Liberal family, he was educated at Rugby and Oxford.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tonbridge
CANDIDATE : Clapham
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. B. R. Clapham practised as a solicitor after being seven years on the staff of the Kent County Council. He had previously been called to the Bar, and in 1949, at his own request, he was struck off the roll of solicitors and applied for readmittance to the Bar. He has studied social conditions in eight countries.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Heywood and Royton
CANDIDATE : Hurley
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. J. Hurley, an Irishman, born in 1896, has spent most of his life in Hull, where he became chairman of the Hull Labour Party and a member of the executive of the Yorkshire Regional Council of the Labour Party. He served for 13 years on the city council. He is an electrical engineer.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Morecambe and Lonsdale
CANDIDATE : Gaskell
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
M?. A. Gaskell, aged 50, is rural industries organizer for the north-west. He was secretary to the Liberal Party in Ramsbottom, Lancashire, where he lives, but in 1922 he joined the Labour Party, and was for a time secretary of the Heywood and Radcliffe divisional party. From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the Lancashire County Council, and is a member and former chairman of the Ramsbottom Urban Council, resigning in 1940.
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