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 : South Ayrshire

CANDIDATE : George

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. George, aged 48, is the son of a miner and entered the pits at the age of 14, rising to become a general manager in 1938. He severed his connexion with coal mining after nationalization and is chairman of a slate firm. In 1948 he was appointed chairman of the Mineral Resources Panel of the Scottish Council for Development and Industries.

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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 : Dunbartonshire West

CANDIDATE : Allan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. R. A. Allan had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy and was the youngest officer to hold the rank of commander in the R.N.V.R. For his war service he was awarded the D.S.O., the O.B.E., French Legion of Honour, and American Legion of Merit, and was four times mentioned in dispatches. For a time he was attached to the British Embassy, Washington, and is interested in Anglo-American relations. He contested Dunbartonshire 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 : Galloway

CANDIDATE : McKie

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. McKie is a member of one of the t oldest families in Gallo-way, who received land from King Robert the Bruce more than 600 years ago. His grandfather and great grandfather both represented the constituency, and Mr. McKie has held it since 1931. Born in 1898, he was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He is a landowner and a bachelor.

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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 : Rutherglen

CANDIDATE : Brooman-White

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. Brooman-White is a journalist and took an honours degree in economics and modern languages at Cambridge. He served in the war and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. A former secretary to Sir Archibald Cochrane, Unionist M.P. for Dunbartonshire, of which Mr. Brooman-White is a native, he was for a year in the diplomatic service at the British Embassy in Turkey.

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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 : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Wilson established himself a few years ago as a market gardener in Blairgowrie. Aged about 26, he is a Bachelor of Science, and during the war was in the War Department as a ” back room boy.”

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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 Lothian

CANDIDATE : Borrowman

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Borrowman is 32 and a native of Blackridge, West Lothian. A railway worker, he was appointed full-time organizer for the Communist Party two years ago. In 1947 he led a deputation to the House of Commons to press for the establishment of new industries in the county. He unsuccessfully contested a local municipal election.

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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 : Battersea North

CANDIDATE : Mahon

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Mahon, a member of the Communist Party since 1921, is the author of “British Trade Unionism,” and a number of pamphlets. He was for many years secretary of the First of May Committee, which organized May Day demonstrations. In 1937 he served in the International Brigade in Spain.

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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 : Camberwell Peckham

CANDIDATE : Gunnell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Gunnell, born in 1918, is an accountant. He was in The Artists’ Rifles and the R.A.S.C. during the war, and later became a lecturer on military law. He is interested in work among 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 : Fulham East

CANDIDATE : Ellesmere

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Ellesmere, born in Fulham in 1906 served on the divisional council of the Building Trade Workers and has been a tederation steward since 1946, and six times a national delegate to the Trades Union Congress. He served oversea for three years 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 : Hammersmith South

CANDIDATE : Fell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony Fell, who lost the 1949 by-election by 1,613 votes, was born in 1914 and educated at Bedford Grammar School and in New Zealand. He has been a sheep farmer and engineer, and is a member of the Institute of Industrial Administration. Mr. Fell unsuccessfully contested Brigg in 1948.

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