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 : Dearne Valley

CANDIDATE : Paling

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Wilfred Paling, M.P. for the Wentworth division since 1933, had the largest maj-ority, 35,410, in the 1945 General Election. He had previously represented Don-caster. He was Labour deputy Chief Whip from 1935 to 1941, and successively Minister of Pensions and Postmaster-General. Born in 1883, he worked as a boy with his father at the coal face, married at 20, later studied mining at University College, Nottingham, and became a checkweighman.

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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 : Ripon

CANDIDATE : Stoddart-Scott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. M. Stoddart-Scott is a doctor of medicine, and holds the degrees of M.D., Ch.B., and M.B. of Leeds University. In 1945 he entered Parliament as the member for Pudsey and Otley. He was president of the Students’ Representative Council, vice – president of Leeds University Union, and twice president of Leeds University Medical Society. He served in the Army in the war, and was Assistant Director of Medical Services. Before the war he was on the medical staff of Leeds General Infirmary.

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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 : Aberdare

CANDIDATE : Samuel

PARTY : Welsh Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. I. Samuel, 37, is the South Wales organizer of the Welsh Nationalist Party. He fought the 1946 by-election here and contested Neath in 1945. He is editor of two party publications, holds a London University diploma in public administration, and is a member of the B.B.C. Council for Wales and of Pontardawe District 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 : Rhondda East

CANDIDATE : Mainwaring

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Mainwaring, who has held the seat since 1933, was born in 1885 at Swansea, and went to Rhondda in his early years to work in the mines. He studied at the Central Labour College, London, for two years, returned to the coal face, and went back to the college in 1919 as economics lecturer and vice-principal. In 1924 he became miners’ agent in Rhondda, which post he held until he became M.P.

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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 : Breconshire and Radnorshire

CANDIDATE : Paton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. M. R. Paton was nominated as an Independent Liberal, the local association having decided not to contest the seat, and subsequently his candidature was approved by Liberal headquarters. Born in Pontypool, he is the third son of a South Wales industrialist and was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford. He is a haulage contractor.

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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 : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Welsh Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. D. E. Morgan, a Baptist minister, aged 30, graduated with honours in Welsh at the University of Wales and took his B.A. degree at the Honours School of Theology at Oxford. In 1945 he won the fine prose competition at the Rhos National Eisteddfod.

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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 : Barry

CANDIDATE : Rees

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. D. Rees was at one time a schoolteacher and was formerly a member of Barry Borough Council. She is an alderman of Glamorgan County Council and a member of the national advisory committee for National Insurance. She is also a member of the Joint Education Committee for Wales and of the Welsh Teaching Hospitals Board.

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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 : Pontypridd

CANDIDATE : Rhys-Roberts

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. T. E. R. Rhys-Roberts, a Regular Army officer, was educated at Westminster and Sandhurst. After active service in the last war, he was seconded to the Foreign Office and was attached to the British Embassy, Athens. He is a barrister practising on the Wales and Chester circuit. He has broadcast and compered the B.B.C. feature programme ” Welsh Magazine.”

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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 : Pontypool

CANDIDATE : Mathias

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. R. Mathias was born at Pont-newydd(Mon.)in 1916. He served in the Royal Navy during the last war and attained the rank of lieutenant-commander at the age of 26. On demobilization he became a chief maintenance officer for Unrra. Later he worked in Australia with a firm of consulting engineers, and afterwards returned to this country in connexion with machinery for a new paper mill company in 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 : Dundee East

CANDIDATE : Cook

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. F. Cook, an electrician, was elected senior member for Dundee in 1945. He is 41. Formerly a member of the I.L.P. and the Scottish Socialist Party, he joined the Labour Party in 1933. A lecturer in economics and industrial history for the National Council of Labour Colleges, he has been Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr.Harold Wilson at the Board of Trade.

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