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 : Birmingham King’s Norton

CANDIDATE : Beesley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Beesley, aged 25, is a research worker. He is a B.Com. of Birmingham University, and became a research associate at the university in April, 1947, and in the following year undertook work on the economics side under the direction of Mr. Clive Williams for the Abercrombie-Jackson Town and Country Purvey, after which he resumed work at the university, where he is a member of the junior staff.

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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 Stechford

CANDIDATE : Haslam

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. W. Haslam, a surveyor and valuer, was a Liberal until 1945, had a brief association with the Unionists, but returned to his former allegiance. A company sergeant-major in the 1914-18 war, he served for a time in the Pioneer Corps in the last war, but returned to civil life and entered war industry. He is?a champion of the small trader.

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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 : Blyth

CANDIDATE : Amos

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Amos (40) was educated at the Essex County High School. He entered the building trade at the age of 14 and eventually became building manager to a large firm in the north-east. He designed the Missions to Seamen Memorial at Hartlepool, the first to be built after the 1939-45 war. He took an active interest in local government work at Leyton.

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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 : Bradford Central

CANDIDATE : Webb

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Maurice Webb, member for the division since 1945, was born in 1904, joined the Labour Party in 1922 and was for many years a well-known political journalist before entering Parliament. From 1929 to 1935 he was propaganda officer for the Labour Party. He was chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in the last Parliament.

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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 : Brentford and Chiswick

CANDIDATE : Parker

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Parker is the organizer of the Brentford and Chiswick Communist Party. He is 33, unmarried, and a sheet metal worker. Early in the war, he was working in aircraft production, but was later called up and served in the R.A.F. He joined the Communist Party in 1940.

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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 : Bristol North West

CANDIDATE : Morris

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Morris, 30 years old, began work as a farm labourer at 14 but later entered journalism and became editor of a journal devoted to agricultural interests. He served in the last war as correspondent with the Canadian Army, and later was a gunner in the Merchant Navy. Afterwards he became personal assistant to Mr. E. Shinwell. He is now the head of a publishing firm.

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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 : Burnley

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. H. Wilson was the first Conservative candidate in Burnley since 1929. Aged 52, he is a member of Liverpool City Council and the chairman and managing director of retail stores and five companies in the Liverpool area. He is vice-chairman and one of the founders of Liverpool Industrial Advisory 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 : Chesterfield

CANDIDATE : Hartington

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Marquess of Hartington, who contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1945, is the °nly surviving son of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Aged 30, he was educated at tton and Cambridge, and from 1940 to 1946 served in the Coldstream Guards and was promoted to a captaincy and awarded the M.C. l°r gallantry and distinguished service in the Italian campaign. He lives at Bakewell and is a member of the Bakewell rural district 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 : Croydon East

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Herbert Williams, who is 66, represented South Croydon from 1932 until 1945. He sat for Reading from 1924 to 1929, and in 1928-29 was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. An engineer, he is associated with many trade and industrial organizations. He was chairman of the executive of the London Conservative Union, and a member of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on national expenditure from 1939 to 1944. He is honorary secretary of the Empire Economic Union, and was knighted in 1939.

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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 : Darlington

CANDIDATE : Rogers

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. V. Rogers was the Liberal candidate in 1945. Aged 33, he took an honours degree in law at Oxford, and now practises as a barrister on the North-Eastern Circuit. He served in the war in the Fleet Air Arm as lieutenant-commander and later lectured under the naval education scheme.

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