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 : Wembley North

CANDIDATE : Dann

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Dann, an average-adjuster, was educated at Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Liberal Club in 1948. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council. Commissioned in The Welsh Guards during the war, he served in Italy and Austria with the 1st Guards Brigade. He was born in 1924.

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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 : Wigan

CANDIDATE : Dowling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Dowling contested the 1948 by-election. He is 47, a native of Wigan, and a teacher at a local school. A member of Wigan Borough Council for 18 years, he is an alderman and was mayor in 1943-44. He is on the local executive of the National Union of Teachers and is interested in social work and sport.

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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 : Wolverhampton South West

CANDIDATE : Powell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Powell is a Birmingham man, and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. For two years he was Professor of Greek at Sydney University. During the war he saw service with the Army, and was a brigadier. After the war he joined the Conservative Party secretariat and was joint head of the home affairs section.

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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 : York

CANDIDATE : Hylton-Foster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. B. Hylton-Foster, K.C.,aged 44, is the son-in-law of the Speaker. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is Recorder of Hudders-field and Chancellor of the Dioceses of Ripon and Durham. He was legal secretary to Lord Finlay at the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1928, and deputy judge advocate in North Africa and Italy during the 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 : Abingdon

CANDIDATE : Dunman

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Dunman, aged 38, was educated at Marlborough and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1938 he gave up an appointment with the London and North Eastern Railway to work as an organizer for the Communist Party, and he is now the Party’s national organizer for agriculture. He contested this division 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 : Buckinghamshire South

CANDIDATE : Bell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. M. Bell sat in Parliament for a short time in 1945, winning a by-election in Newport (Mon.) in May of that year. Born in 1914 he was educated at Oxford, where ho was secretary and treasurer of the union in 1935-36 and president of the University Conservative Association in 1936, and became a barrister. He has been a member of Paddington Borough Council. He served in the R.N.V.R. in West Africa and Ceylon as a lieutenant-?ommander.

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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 : Crewe

CANDIDATE : Allen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Schofield Allen, K.C., who won Crewe in the 1945 election, is Recorder of Blackburn. Educated at Liverpool University, he was called to the Bar in 1923, practising on the Northern Circuit, and took silk in 1945. He is a member of the Manx Bar and has a commercial and insurance practice. He served in the 1914-18 war, first in the ranks and then with a commission in the R.F.A.

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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 : Stalybridge and Hyde

CANDIDATE : Burden

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. Burden, a solicitor, in partnership at Hyde and living at Romiley, is 33 and was born at Beverley (Yorks). He studied history and law at Cambridge. He served in the war as a rating in the TNavy and took part in Mediterranean engagements. He has been president of Hyde Liberal Association 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 : St Ives

CANDIDATE : Allison

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. E. F. Allison, born in 1916, won a scholarship from Manchester Grammar School to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took honours in mathematics and a diploma in economics. He was president of the University Liberal Club and of the Union of University Liberal Societies. He is a master at Dulwich College. He commanded a battery in the 5th and 8th Armies in the 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 : Bolsover

CANDIDATE : Cordeaux

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. K. Cordeaux, aged 47, a member of a well-known Conservative family in Lincolnshire, entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1919, but later transferred to the Royal Marines. From 1937 he was employed exclusively on Intelligence work and saw service in the Balkans, the Middle East and other countries, and subsequently was seconded to the Foreign Office. He was made a C.B.E. and holds several foreign decorations.

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