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 : Preston South

CANDIDATE : Shackleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. A. Shackle-ton, son of the famous explorer, and himself the organizer and surveyor of the Oxford University expedition to Ellesmere Land in 1934-35, entered Parliament in 1946, at a by-election, and became Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Supply. Born in 1911 and educated at Radley and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was a wing commander in the R.A.F. intelligence service in the war. He has given special attention to industrial organization in the cotton industry.

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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 : Rochdale

CANDIDATE : Fulford

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Roger Fulford was born in 1902 and educated at Lancing and Worcester College, Oxford, where he was president of the Union. He is a barrister, journalist, and author of historical books, and during the war was a censor and served for a time as private secretary to Sir Archibald Sinclair at the Air Ministry. He is treasurer of the Free Trade Union.

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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 : Ruislip Northwood

CANDIDATE : Birk

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. A. L. Birk is aged 30 and the wife of a solicitor. She took a degree in economics in 1939 at the London School of Economics. Interested in youth work and penal reform, she serves on the committee of a North London youth club, is a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform, and lectures at Holloway Prison.

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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 Hallam

CANDIDATE : Jennings

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Jennings, who has held Hallam since the 1939 by-election, is 55 and an accountant practising in London and Sunderland. An officer in The Durham Light Infantry in the 1914-18 war, he was wounded in France. Formerly M.P. for Sedgefield (Durham), he was defeated there in 1935.

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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 : Southall

CANDIDATE : Pargiter

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. Pargiter was member for Spel-thorne in the last Parliament. Born in 1897 and educated at Towcester Grammar School, he is an engineer and has held many offices in the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He was mayor of Southall for three years in succession and is leader of the Labour group on Middlesex County Council, of which he has been a member since 1934. He has accompanied Parliamentary delegations to Germany and Finland. Wounded at Gallipoli in the 1914-18 war, he was Civil Defence controller in Southall 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 : Southgate

CANDIDATE : Baxter

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Beverley Baxter, journalist, author and critic, was born in Toronto in 1891, and served in the Canadian Expedi?ionary Force in the 1914-18 war. During the second world war he acted as Controller of Aircraft Factory Cooperation under Lord Beaverbrook. He represented the old Wood Green constituency from 1935.

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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 : Stockton-on-Tees

CANDIDATE : Chetwynd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Chetwynd won Stockton for the Labour Party in 1945, defeating Mr. Harold Macmillan. A miner’s son, he was born in 1916 and won scholarships to a grammar school and King’s College, London University. He became a captain in the Army Education Corps during the war, and in Parliament has been private secretary to Mr. Dalton, when the latter was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

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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 : Sunderland South

CANDIDATE : Ewart

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Ewart, elected as one of the two Sunderland members in 1945, was for eight years organizer of the General and Municipal Workers’ Union in South Shields, and became organizer for the Tees-side area in 1945. He is a former chairman of the Cleveland division Labour Party, and has served on the South Shields Town Council and the North Riding County Council. He was born in 1904.

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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 : Tottenham

CANDIDATE : Cross

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Cross, aged 34, was born in Islington, and is a dispatch manager in the book trade. During the war he served with the Cambridgeshire Regiment, and was taken prisoner at Singapore. For three and a half years he was on forced labour on the ” railway of death” in Siam. He has been branch secretary and branch chairman in Tottenham, 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 : Walsall

CANDIDATE : Wells

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Wells, a barrister, was born in 1908, and educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Labour Party in 1930, and is a member of the Fabian Society and of the Society of Labour Lawyers. As a major in the Army from 1940 and 1945, he was engaged on work for the War Office, and is an authority on international law.

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