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 : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Sleigh

PARTY : Ind. Scot. Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. H. Sleigh is a retired cavalry officer, who served in the 1914-18 war. He has contested the Edinburgh Corporation elections, and at the last General Election in 1945 he was a candidate for the same constituency, when he forfeited his deposit.

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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 : Edinburgh West

CANDIDATE : Hutchison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. G. I. C. Hutchison, who became M.P. for the division in 1941, is son of a former member for North Midlothian. Born in 1903 and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, he served in the Royal Navy and became a specialist in mines and torpedoes. He was inspector of naval ordnance, Edinburgh, and South East Scotland in the last war. For six years he was a member of Edinburgh Town 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 : Glasgow Gorbals

CANDIDATE : Kerrigan

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Kerrigan, aged 50, has been an active member of the Communist Party since 1921 and is a national organizer. In several municipal elections he has always been unsuccessful.

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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 : Glasgow Maryhill

CANDIDATE : Cowan

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Cowan is an honours graduate of Glasgow University and lives in the Muirend district of the city. She has been working in England as a tutor in adult education.

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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 : Glasgow Tradeston

CANDIDATE : Rankin

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Rankin, a teacher, is 60 and joined the Labour Party in 1915. He fought the Pollok seat three times and was elected for Tradeston in 1945. Educated at Glasgow University, he has been lecturer and propagandist for the Scottish Labour College. He is a keen cooperator, and was once chairman of Glasgow I.L.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 : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : Forbes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. W. Forbes, unsuccessful in the 1948 by-election, was born in 1902, educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and commissioned in the Coldstream Guards. He was captured by the Italians at Tobruk in 1942, but escaped and was free for a fortnight before falling into German hands. He remained a prisoner of war until 1945. He is a member of Stirling County 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 : Argyll

CANDIDATE : Holt

PARTY : Scot. Home Rule

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. S. MacP. Holt was born in Madras where her father was principal of Madras College, and first elected-vice-chancellor of Madras University. She worked during the first world war in an aircraft factory, and volunteered to nurse Serbian soldiers in Corsica. She spent a considerable period in Ihe Middle East, and was in Spain when the Civil War broke out.

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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 : Banffshire

CANDIDATE : Lethem

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Gordon Lethem, now farming in Esk-dailemuir, Dumfriesshire, was educated at Edinburgh and Grenoble Universities, and at s?hools of Oriental languages in Paris and London, and is a barrister. He was the first administrator of the German Cameroons after the 1914-18 war and was successively Governor of the Seychelles, the Leeward Islands, and British Guiana. He took part in the negotiations with America for the destroyers-for-air bases deal. He is a K.C.M.G. and a Knight of the Order of St. John.

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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 : Fife East

CANDIDATE : Freeman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. A. Freeman, aged 21, who lives at Hampstead, was educated in London, France, and Canada, and more recently has been studying at St. Andrew’s University. He is president of the University Liberal Association and on the general council of the Scottish Liberal 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 : Bothwell

CANDIDATE : Cadzow

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Cadzow is a native of Bothwell and partner in a Glasgow paint firm. During the war he served in the Royal Navy and was mentioned in dispatches for demolition work at the time of Dunkirk. Later he went to the Admiralty and at the end of the war was at Naples as staff officer (plans) to the naval commander.

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