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 : Rossendale

CANDIDATE : Greenwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony W. J. Greenwood is 38, and the son of Mr. Arthur Greenwood, former Cabinet Minister and Treasurer of the Labour Party. A former president of the Oxford Union, he was on the Ministry of Information staff in Russia and the Middle East early in the war, later serving as an R.A.F. officer. After the war he was with the Chiefs of Staff organization and the Reparations Commission. He entered Parliament in February, 1946, at a by-election at Heywood and Radcliffe.

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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 : Salford East

CANDIDATE : Sinclair

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Sinclair, aged 52, was educated at Reading College and Manchester University. He is managing director of a local leather goods manufacturing firm. He is a member of the Export Development Committee and of the executive of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. In the first world war he commanded a company of The Manchester Regiment, and served in the Home Guard in the last war.

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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 : Sheffield Hillsborough

CANDIDATE : Darling

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Darling, former railway worker, born in Crewe in 1906, began work at 14, joined the A.E.U. and became a national figure in the Labour youth movement. Through the W.E.A. he won a scholarship to Liverpool University, and later graduated in economics at Cambridge. In 1930 he took charge of the research department of the C.W.S. When war broke out he joined the B.B.C. reporting team and is the industrial correspondent.

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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 : Southampton Itchen

CANDIDATE : Craven-Ellis

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Craven-Ellis represented Southampton fr?m 1931 to 1945 as a ” National ” member. He is a company director.

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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 : South Shields

CANDIDATE : Ede

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Chuter Ede, Home Secretary, was member for S. Shields 1,929-31, and afterwards from 1935. He first entered Parliament as M.P. for Mitcham, 1923. Educated at elementary and secondary schools and Christ’s College, Cambridge, he has been a teacher. He served on Epsom U.D.C. and was charter mayor of Epsom and Ewell, 1937. For many years also he was a Surrey County Councillor and deputy lieutenant for Surrey, 1931. For five years in the war Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education and became a Privy ^Council lor in 1944.

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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 : Stoke-on-Trent North

CANDIDATE : Hodgens

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. W. Hodgens, aged 29, joined the Army from Balliol College, Oxford, where he had gained a scholarship. He was commissioned in 1942 and served in the Middle East and Italy. He is a member of the Conservative Research Department and of the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat. He served on the Allied Control Commission in Germany.

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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 : Swindon

CANDIDATE : Reid

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Reid is a retired colonial administrator, having served in the Ceylon Civil Service from 1905 to 1931, and filled various judicial and administrative posts in the is?and, including special duty in connexion with the introduction of the new constitution, 1931. In 1933 he was appointed Financial Commissioner to report on the Seychelles Colony ; was chairman of the League of Nations Commission on the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 1937-38 ; and a member of the Palestine Partition Commission, 1938. He was elected for Swindon in 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 : Tynemouth

CANDIDATE : Slack

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. B. Slack, a 26-year-old lecturer at King’s College, Newcastle, was educated at Cambridge, and specialized in bio-chemistry. He volunteered for active service in the war, but was directed to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and engaged in Government research work. He is a member of the Nutrition Society and the First International Congress of Bio-chemistry and an associate member of the British 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 : Walthamstow West

CANDIDATE : Paul

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Paul, who was born in 1915 and educated at Christ’s Hospital, was for 15 years on the staff of a leading oil company until he resigned to fight the election. He is a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. During the war he served for six years in the R.A.F.V.R., and was demobilized with the rank of squadron leader.

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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 : Wembley South

CANDIDATE : Russell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. S. Russell is 46, and research secretary of the Empire Economic Union. He graduated at Cambridge, and was formerly a journalist. He was elected to the L.C.C. three years ago, serving on the town planning, welfare, and Parliamentary committees. In 1947 he attended the international conference on Trade and Employment at Geneva, and last year was chosen as a British delegate to the Westminster economic conference arranged by the United Europe Committee and the European Movement.

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