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 : Islington East

CANDIDATE : Fletcher

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Fletcher, who is 46 and the son of a former town clerk of Islington, won the seat for the Labour Party in 1945. From an elementary school he won scholarships which took him to London University. A solicitor, he specializes in inter-national law. He repre-sented South Islington on the L.C.C. for 14 years. Mr. Fletcher is deputy chairman of the Associated British Picture Corporation, Limited, and a director of its associated companies.

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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 : Kensington South

CANDIDATE : Frankenburg

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Frankenburg was born in 1921 and was educated at Stowe and at Balliol. He is the son of Sydney Frankenburg, who founded the first Jewish branch of the British Legion. In 1940, when reading law, he volunteered for the Army and served in Egypt, Palestine, and ^yna. He was taken prisoner in the desert, and while in Germany continued his studies and passed his first Bar examination. Mr. Frankenburg is treasurer of the World Federa-“°n of Liberal and Radical Youth.

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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 : Lewisham South

CANDIDATE : Rouse

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. W. Rouse, a master builder and decorator in Surrey, aged 53, went to Millwall *~entral School and trained as a technical engineer. In that capacity with an electrical company after the war he travelled widely in America.

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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 : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Watson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Watson, full-time leader of the dockers, lightermen, and seamen in the Port of London, began work as a messenger at Canning Town, where he attended Star Lane School. At 16 he became an apprentice lighterman, and later was a foreman lighterman and afterwards mate of a tug.

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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 : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Edwards, who is 49, served as a naval stoker during the two world wars and was the first man to go diEect from the lower deck to the House of Commons, to which he was elected as member for White-chapel in 1942 and again in 1945. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty throughout the late Government. He was mayor of Stepney in 1944-45, and at one time a trade union organizer in the London docks.

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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 Putney

CANDIDATE : Chaplin

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Irene Chaplin is better known politically by her maiden name of Irene Marcouse, in which she unsuccessfully fought Holborn in the 1945 election. She was coopted to the Holborn Borough Council in 1939, and after 1945 became leader of the majority until 1949. Since elected to the London County Council as representative of East Islington in 1946, she has served on the education, town planning, and finance committees.

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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 : Acton

CANDIDATE : Sparks

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Sparks first became M.P. for Acton in 1945. He was a railway clerk until that time and a member of the National Union of Rail way men, by whom he is sponsored. A large number of rail-waymen live in Acton. Mr. Sparks promoted in 1949 the Hairdressers’ Registration Bill, which failed to pass. He served for many years on Acton Borough Council.

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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 : Barrow-in-Furness

CANDIDATE : Monslow

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Monslow is national organizing secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. Born in 1895 and educated at an elementary school, he worked on the Great Western Railway as cleaner, fireman and driver from 1911-33. He has held all local and district offices of his union and was 10 years on the executive before being elected organizing secretary, 1939. He served on Parliamentary delegation to Greece, 1946; and led the T.U.C. delegation to Russia, 1937. He was first elected M.P. for Barrow in Furnessin 1945.

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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 : Bexley

CANDIDATE : Bramall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Bramall was elected for Bexley in a by-election in July, 1946, with a majority of 1,851. Bora in 1916, he is a barrister, having been called to the Bar last year. He is a former member of Twickenham Borough Council. Enlisting in the Army as a trooper, he reached the rank of major. In 1938 he was treasurer of the Oxford Union.

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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 Edgbaston

CANDIDATE : Hobson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Hobson, a Birmingham man born in 1899, won a foundation scholarship at King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham, at the age of 10. After employment in an export merchant’s office and service in the first war, he was for 20 years chief clerk in a manufacturing concern. Last year he was appointed a lecturer in health education in the schools by Birmingham Health Department.

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