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 : Rotherham

CANDIDATE : Body

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Body, born in 1927 in Reading, where he was educated, is reading for the Bar at the Middle Temple. During the war he ssrved in the R.A.F., chiefly in India. In 1948-49, he was secretary of the Glanvil Society, and he has been active in politics since the age of 16, when he began speaking in Hyde Park.

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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 West

CANDIDATE : Storey

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. H. Storey, aged 43, is in the timber trade, and is director of a large Manchester firm. He is an executive member of Hardwood Importers’ Section, Timber Trade Federation, and the Kiln Owners’ Association, and was area secretary of the Timber Control until 1945, when he resigned to contest Wavertree. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and is a governor of Widnes Technical College.

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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 Neepsend

CANDIDATE : Cook

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. M. Cook, who is 32, was educated at Uppingham and Sheffield University, and commissioned in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1940. After service in the Middle East and Italy, he entered the family business and became managing director in 1947. He has travelled in Europe, the Middle East, and Canada.

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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 : Southend East

CANDIDATE : McAdden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. J. McAdden, born in 1907, is an export sales manager and director who has travelled’ all over the world in the course of his business. At the age of 21 he led the Conservative Party in the Liverpool Parliamentary Debating Society when Lord Woolton was Speaker, and has maintained an active interest in the Party organization. He has served as a local councillor and a member of the Essex County 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 : Stockport North

CANDIDATE : Hulbert

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Wo. Cdr. N. J. Htjlbert, who has sat for Stockport since 1935, is 45, and a native of Kent. A freeman of the City of London, he served on the L.C.C. from 1934 to 1937. From 1939 to 1943 he served in an operational command of the R.A.F., and was later liaison officer to the Polish forces. He is chairman of a Birmingham steel 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 : Stretford

CANDIDATE : Storey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Samuel Storey sat in Parliament from 1931 to 1945 as member for Sunderland and was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Health from 1939 to 1942. Born in 1896, and educated at Haileybury and Cambridge, he is chairman and managing director of a newspaper company. He was chairman of the Press Association in 1938 and of Reuters in 1941.

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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 : Torquay

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Charles Williams was first returned as M.P. for Tavistock in 1918, which he represented until 1922. Since 1924 he has represented Torquay. In the war-time Parliament he was deputy chairman of Ways and Means. Born in 1886, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he comes of a family with a tradition of Parliamentary service. He is the eldest son of the late Mr. .1. C. Williams, formerly Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.

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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 : Wallasey

CANDIDATE : Marples

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Marples, who won Wallasey from an Independent in 1945, was born in Manchester in 1907, After qualifying as an accountant, he started business as a builder with £20 borrowed capital, and achieved financial independence in 10 years. He is now managing director of a firm of civil engineering contractors. Sportsman and mountaineer, he played football for Dulwich Hamlet.

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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 : Warrington

CANDIDATE : Neep

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. L. Neep is 44, and leaving school at 13 took spare-time technical and commercial courses. After working in the building and steel trades he became managing director and editor of a London publishing house. He next started business as an underground mining contractor, which ceased on nationalization, and he then turned his full-time attention to politics.

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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 : West Bromwich

CANDIDATE : Dugdale

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. John Dugdale, who was returned unopposed in 1941 and re-elected in 1945, when he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. He is 44. Educated at Wellington and Oxford, he has been an attache at the British Legation, Peking, a journalist, war correspondent, and private secretary to Mr. Attlee.

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