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 : Maidstone

CANDIDATE : White

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. A. White, aged 52, is the organizer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in the Maidstone and Medway towns area, vice-chairman of the Medway and Swale Dock Labour Board, and a member of the Thames and Medway Joint Industrial Council for the cement 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 : Clitheroe

CANDIDATE : Randall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. E. Randall, aged 50, son of a farmworker, began life in London as a Post Office messenger and became organizing secretary of the Postal Workers’ Union, a post he still holds. Has been active in the Workers’ Educational Association and served on the executiye. He was recently made a Government Whip. He is a prominent Methodist local preacher in the division. He was first elected 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 : Ince

CANDIDATE : Scott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Scott, aged 42, was articled to a Manchester solicitor, but, forsaking the law, he joined the regular Army. He served throughout the war as an officer of The Royal Welch Fusiliers, and directed a legal advice and welfare bureau.

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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 : Ormskirk

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. C. Edwards was born in September, 1922, and is secretary of the Victoria Settlement Community Centre at Liverpool. He joined the Labour Party in 1946, and is a member of the Fabian Society and of the Liverpool Co-operative Society. During the war he was a full-time civil defence worker and then served with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit. He is chairman of a holiday organization, and is overseer and treasurer of the Society of Friends in Liverpool.

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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 : Loughborough

CANDIDATE : Middup

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. F. Middup is a deputy overman at Newstead Colliery, and he has worked at almost every underground job. For eight years he was president of Newstead branch of Nottinghamshire Miners’ Federation, and is the only Conservative trade union official in the Nottinghamshire union. Born in 1894, he won a scholarship to Sheffield University.

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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 : Gainsborough

CANDIDATE : Crookshank

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. H. F. C. Crookshank won the division for the Conservatives in 1924 and has held it ever since. Born in Cairo and educated at Eton and Oxford he served in the Grenadier Guards in the 1914-18 war and was on the Embassy staff in Washington until 1924. He has been Undersecretary to the Home Office, Secretary for Mines, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Postmaster-General, and chairman of the Conservative agricultural group. He is a bachelor, and aged 57.

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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 : Norfolk Central

CANDIDATE : Jebb

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. V. B. Jebb, aged 22, who came forward as a last-minute Liberal candidate, is reading at Cambridge for a degree in architecture. He is a grandson of Mr. Hilaire Belloc.

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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 : Kettering

CANDIDATE : Mitchison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Mitchison, K.C., member for the division since 1945, was educated at Eton and Oxford, and during the first world war gained the Croix de Guerre, and left the Army with the rank of major. During the late war he worked for the Ministry of Labour on the Beveridge man-power survey and was in charge of the Nufneld College Social Reconstruction Survey in London. He is aged 59, and on the executive of the Fabian Society. His wife is Naomi Mitchison, the authoress.

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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 : Hexham

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : The Speaker

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. Douglas Clifton Brown, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is 70 years of age. Educated at Cheam, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned in the King’s Dragoon Guards and served throughout the 1914-18 war, being Brigade Major of the 17th Mounted Brigade in 1916. In 1922 he joined the Northumberland Hussars, and succeeded to the command of the regiment in 1925. Entering Parliament for Hexham in 1918, he has represented that constituency since with a short break in 1923-24. He was Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker from 1938 to 1943, and Chairman of Ways and Means in 1943, when he was elected Speaker. He has stated that he will retire at the end of the present Parliament.

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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 : Newark-on-Trent

CANDIDATE : Deer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Deer represented Lincoln in the last Parliament. He is 60, and became an area organizer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1929. He has served on several trade union committees ; is an alderman of Lincoln City Council, and was mayor in 1933-34, and was appointed Sheriff of the city in 1943.

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