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 : Battersea South

CANDIDATE : Tyers

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. C. Tyers was born in Battersea, and went to Lavender Hill School and Salesian College. After service in the R.N.V.R. in the war he took a hotel in Broadstairs, where he is a member of the urban council. He is a football referee and commanding officer of Sea Cadets at Ramsgate.

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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 : Chelsea

CANDIDATE : Tonge

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. L. Tonge, born in 1896, and educated at the Merchant Venturers’ Secondary School, is a railway clerk, and a member of the national executive of the Railway Clerks’ Association. For six years up to 1939 he was a member of the Swindon Town 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 : Fulham West

CANDIDATE : Walcot-Bather

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Walcot-Bather, born in 1908, is an architect and surveyor. During the war he was engaged for a time in the construction of aerodromes, and afterwards served with the J*”A.S.C. He was prospective Liberal candidate for North Lambeth from 1937 to 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 : Hampstead

CANDIDATE : Hawkins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. F. Hawkins, head master of Gibbons Secondary School, Willesden, since 1948, was born in Bethnal Green in 1906. An L.C.C. teacher in Shadwell and Shoreditch, he became senior master at Croydon Polytechnic and head master of Newcastle Technical School. He has b;en a member of Leyton Borough Council since 1935, and of Essex County Council since 1946.

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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 : Kensington North

CANDIDATE : Rogers

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Rogers, aged 44, has represented North Kensington from 1945, when he captured the seat from the Conservatives. From 1947 to 1949 he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. G. R. Strauss, Minister of Supply, a position he lost when in 1947 he voted?against the Government on the Ireland Bill. He has served on the Wembley Borough Council and was at one time chairman of the London group of Labour M.P.s. He is an industrial consultant with London Transport.

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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 : Lambeth Vauxhall

CANDIDATE : Heinemann

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Heineman was born in 1913 and took her B.A. with first-class honours at Cambridge. She was first a teacher in Birmingham and then a research worker for the trade union movement, and for some years edited the publication ” Labour Research.” A writer and lecturer, she turned to Communism as a result of the hunger marches through London in the nineteen-thirties.

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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 : Paddington South

CANDIDATE : Chair

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Somerset de Chair, author, aged 39, was educated at King’s School, New South Wales, where his father was Governor, and at Balliol College, Oxford. From 1935 to 1945 he was M.P. for S.W. Norfolk and served as Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Production. He also acted as chairman of the Conservative committee on the future constitution of Burma, and as vice-chairman of the Imperial Affairs Committee in the House. He is on the executive of the United Nations Association and is chairman of its National Appeal 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 : Shoreditch and Finsbury

CANDIDATE : Platts-Mills

PARTY : Ind.Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. F. F. Platts-Mills entered Parliament in 1945 as Labour member for Finsbury. He early took an independent line on many questions, especially in foreign affairs and finally was expelled from the party in 1948, since when he has described himself as a Labour Independent. He was born in New Zealand in 1906 and educated at the Victoria University there and later at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is a barrister.

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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 : Wandsworth Central

CANDIDATE : Rose

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Rose, secretary to an export firm, was born in 1922. He served in the war with the County of London Yeomanry as a tank commander and was awarded the Royal Hellenic Military Cross for services with the Greek Brigade in the desert. For two years after demobilization he was secretary of” the Association for Jewish Ex-Service Men and Women.

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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 : Woolwich West

CANDIDATE : Steward

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Steward is a business man with interests in restaurants, advertising publicity, and farming. He was returned to the L.C.C. for West Woolwich last year. He is active in many local organizations, including the British Legion and the United Nations’ Association; and is a governor of King’s Warren School, Plums tead.

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