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 : Leigh

CANDIDATE : Whiteley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Whiteley, a barrister, is in the unusual position of being a member of two councils—Salford City and Prestwich Borough. Born in 1903, he is a partner in a firm of electrical engineers and contractors. He is also chairman of a Salford motor company. He is associated with Salford Royal Hospital, and is a past chairman of the Lancashire Fusiliers Cadet Welfare 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 : Liverpool Kirkdale

CANDIDATE : Keenan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Keenan is an alderman and ex-mayor of Bootle, and has long been connected with the trade union movement, first with the National Union of Railwaymen and later with the Transport and General Workers’ Union. He has been the member for Kirkdale since 1945. He joined the Labour Party in 1920.

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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 : Liverpool West Derby

CANDIDATE : Kirby

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. V. Kirby represented the Everton division from 1935 until it disappeared in the redistribution. He served for five years in the 1914-18 war and was awarded the D.C.M. Now 62 years of age, he has been for many years a leading personality in the Liverpool Labour Party.

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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 : Manchester Exchange

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. D. Griffiths, who won Moss Side from the Conservatives in 1945, is a consulting ophthalmic optician in Wythenshawe. Born in 1912, he was educated at an elementary school and privately. He served over three years in the Middle East and was with the 8th Army at El Alamein. He is chairman of the Manchester branch of the Socialist Medical 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 : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Dean

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss F. Dean is 32, and for many years was secretary of the Manchester Equitable branch of the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, and its delegate to the Manchester and Salford Trades Council, of which she was recently a vice-president. For the past three years she has been a delegate to the T.U.C. She is on the national executive of the Lancashire and district committee of the Communist Party.

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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 : Newcastle-under-Lyme

CANDIDATE : Mack

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. D. Mack, born in Liverpool 50 years ago of working-class parents, spent some years in Leeds, and then returning to Liverpool was elected to the City Council in 1928 and remained a member for 18 years. He was returned unopposed at Newcastle under Lyme in 1942 on the elevation to the peerage of the late Lord Wedgwood. A former insurance agent, he is national leader of the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers.

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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 : Northampton

CANDIDATE : Alloway

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. H. Alloway, 55 years of age, worked for many years in a large industrial organization and is responsible for the industrial management course in a college of technology and commerce at Leicester, and is also a farmer. He lost a leg.in Flanders in the 1914-18 war and is treasurer of a branch of the British Legion, a churchwarden, and school manager.

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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 : Nottingham South

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Norman Smith, member for the division since 1945, had previously contested Faver-sham, Kent, in 1931 and 1935. Born in 1890 and educated at Swin-don College, he became an author and journalist, and has been identified with monetary reform movements since 1946. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in the 1914-18 war. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation from the Estimates Committee which visited Germany and Austria.

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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 : Oxford

CANDIDATE : Keeling

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Keeling, aged 35, works in a motorcar factory and took a leading part in the pressed steel strike in Oxford in 1934. He has since led many industrial disputes and housing campaigns, and is district secretary of the South Midlands Communist Party.

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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 : Portsmouth South

CANDIDATE : Merrion

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. C. Merrion, aged 46, and educated at elementary schools and evening classes, has been a member of the Labour Party 25 years and held most local offices, besides being a technical lecturer at Labour colleges. Has been on Enfield council and chairman of the Housing Committee, and is a member of Enfield Industrial Executive Committee and the Health Act Tribunal. He is an authority on building trade matters and has several times broadcast on industrial and political subjects.

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