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 : Bossom

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. C. Bossom, member for Maidstone since 1931, was born in London in 1881. At the age of 23 he went to the United States, where in 10 years he built up a large architectural practice. Since his retirement from business in 1926 he has given his time to the modernization of the building industry, and accompanied the British Building Mission to America in 1943. As an alderman of the London County Council he was chairman of the Slum Clearance Committee until 1934.

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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 : Fort

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Fort, aged 41, an industrial chemist, contested the division in 1945, and his grandfather and uncle were M.P.s for Clitheroe. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he took B.Sc, and in 1935 joined Imperial Chemical Industries, becoming president of I.C.I. (New York) Limited, in 1938. After service with the British Purchasing Commission in the United States he was with the Ministry of Supply, and is technical consultant to I.C.I.

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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 : Brown

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Tom Brown, 63, member for Ince since 1942, spent 44 years working in and about the coal mines in the Wigan district. He has served on the executive of the National Union of Mine-workers and has? been vice-president of the Lancashire and Cheshire , area. He is president of |ft the National Federation ^^ja* of Old-age Pensioners’ Associations.

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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 : Cross

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner in Australia from 1941 to 1945, is a former Conservative Minister. He was born in 1896 and was educated at Eton. He served in the first war and in 1931 entered the House of Commons as member for Rossendale, but lost the seat in 1945. He has held numerous Parliamentary posts, including those of Government Whip, Vice-Chairman of the Household, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. From 1939to 1940 he was Minister of Economic Warfare, and from 1940 to 1941 Minister of Shipping. In the latter year he went to Australia.

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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 : Follick

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Follick, an advocate of spelling reform, is a linguist, speaking seven languages and having a working knowledge of 14. He founded a school of languages in London. Born in 1887, he was educated at the Sorbonne, Paris, and the Universities of Halle and Padua, and for four years was professor of English at Madrid University. He has been secretary to the Aga Khan, Sir Robert Philip (Prime Minister of Queensland), and the Sultan of Morocco, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society of Arts.

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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 : Brigg

CANDIDATE : Cowley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. M. Cowley, a 30-year-old barrister, served during the war as a flight lieutenant. He was a prisoner of war from 1941 to 1944, when he escaped. He was born in Belfast, and educated at Radley and Exeter College, Oxford. His father, also a Liberal, is a deemster in the Isle of Man.

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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 : Holderness

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sqn. Ldr. G. W. Holderness, formerly a journalist, disposed of his newspaper interests in Devonshire after the war and took up fruit and stock farming in Norfolk. He served in the Palestine campaign in the 1914-18 war and in the later war was at the headquarters of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces.

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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 : Yarmouth

CANDIDATE : Cornwell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Cornwell, formerly an insurance broker, is interested in many property and estate companies in the south of England. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals during the war. He is vice-president of the South Bucks Liberal Association, and he was a member of the Albany Club Sports Committee which raised £10,000 for the National Playing Fields Association.

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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 : Berwick-upon-Tweed

CANDIDATE : Davis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Davis, a Co-operative Society branch manager, was at the bottom of the poll in the 1945 contest. He was educated at an elementary school, and is aged 52. For many years he has worked for the Shop Assistants’ Union, and in the local boys’ club, British Legion, and W.E.A. He is chairman of the local development board and for 16 years was a member of Amble U.D.C.

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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 : Mansfield

CANDIDATE : Ellis

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. L. Ellis, who is 47 and a former miner, was refused employment at the pits after the 1926 strike, but was recently elected checkweighman. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, and became a staff-sergeant. A member of Hucknall Co-operative Society for 29 years, and now a director, he joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was its organizer in 1941-42.

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