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 : Derbyshire South East

CANDIDATE : Jennings

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. Jennings, a Durham man, born in 1903, trained to be a teacher at Bede College, and later studied economics and social history at King’s College, Durham. For eight years he was a member of the Seaham urban district council. In 1941 he was granted a commission in the Royal Marines, but the authorities refused to release him from his teaching duties.

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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 : Tiverton

CANDIDATE : Blackburn

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. C. H. Blackburn, who had contested East Islington in 1935 and Tiyerton in the last election, is the founder and director of a firm of electrical appliances engineers and director of a wholesale distributing business in London. He has served on the executive of the Home Counties Liberal Federation and on the council of the Liberal Party organization. From 1939 to 1945 he served with the R.A.O.C. and was on the H.Q. staff of the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division (T.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 : Dorset West

CANDIDATE : Cameron

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Cameron was a fruit farmer in North Dorset before the war, but since the war he has been a schoolmaster at Shaftesbury. At the outbreak of the war he organized and trained Blandford rural fire service, and then he joined the R.A.F. and became a navigator in Transport Command.

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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 : Houghton-le-Spring

CANDIDATE : Bolam

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. B. Bolam, who is 29, made local history in 1945 by becoming the youngest member to be elected to the Jarrow Town Council. She gave up her job as secretary to the headmaster of Jarrow Grammar School to give her time to political work, and helped to form the Young Conservatives Association, of which she was chairman until 1947. She won a Ministry of Labour scholarship to Sherry’s College, Newcastle, and a scholarship to Ashridge 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 : Colchester

CANDIDATE : Alport

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. M. Alport, born in 1912, went to Haileybury, became president of the Cambridge Union in 1935, and in that year led a debating team to the United States. He joined the Artists’ Rifles before 1939 and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He is a director of education in the Conservative 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 : Thurrock

CANDIDATE : Neave

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. M. S. Neave, aged 33, a member of an old Essex family and educated at Eton and Oxford, is a barrister and was assistant secretary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. In 1940 he was wounded and captured at Calais, but escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. Later he served with a special intelligence unit, and accompanied a military mission to Holland 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 : Aldershot

CANDIDATE : Lyttelton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, who has sat for Aldershot since 1940, was a member of Mr. Churchill’s War Cabinet, being successively President of the Board of Trade, Minister of State in the Middle East, and Minister of Production. He was managing director of British Metal Corporation Limited before entering the Government, and is now chairman of Associated Electrical Industries. Born in 1893, he is the only son of the late Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and served in the Grenadier Guards in 1914-18.

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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 : Leominster

CANDIDATE : Baldwin

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Baldwin, farmer and stockbreeder, was born in a log cabin in Tennessee, his parents having emigrated at the end of the last ?entury. When his father returned to this country he sent his son to Lucton School. He served in the R.H.A. and won the M.C. in the 1914-18 war. Born in 1894, he is also a member of a firm of auctioneers.

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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 Albans

CANDIDATE : Dumpleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. W. Dumpleton, born at Luton, 1897, was mayor of St. Albans, 1943 and 1944, and was manager of a printing and publishing business before being elected in 1945. He is chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party housing and town planning group, member of the local government advisory panel to the Colonial Office and of the Colonial Economic and Development Council, and honorary secretary of the Parliamentary Socialist Christian group.

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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 : Chislehurst

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Hughes, aged 29, is a student of economics and a journalist. He served in ths Far East with The Seaforth Highlanders and on demobilization took a business appointment in India, but returned to England as a volunteer for coal-mining work.

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