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 : St Helens

CANDIDATE : Shawcross

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Hartley Shawcross, K.C., entering Parliament for the first time in 1945, went direct to the Treasury bench as Attorney-General. He was born in Germany in 1902, of British parents, but was brought to England as a baby and educated at Dulwich College and Geneva. As a junior barrister he was in chambers in Liverpool with Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe, a former Attorney-General. He was chairman of the Aliens Tribunal in 1939 and of the Catering Wages Commission and for three years during the war Commissioner for the North-Western Region. At each meeting of the Assembly of the United Nations he has been one of the principal delegates from the United Kingdom, and at the Nuremberg trials of the major war criminals he was chief British prosecutor. A former recorder of Salford, he is now recorder of Kingston on Thames.

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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 : Sheffield Hallam

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Jones, born in 1902, is a joiner and a shop steward, and last July became national organizer of Liberal trade unionists. He is chairman of Rotherham Liberal Association and has also been a Baptist lay preacher and a Sunday school superintendent for many years.

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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 : Southall

CANDIDATE : Purton

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Purton was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School and at Oxford and served six years in the Army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and gained the Military Cross. He is a teacher in Pinner County Grammar School.

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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 : Southport

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. S. Hudson, who has represented Southport since 1931—he was M.P. for Whitehaven, 1924-29 — held many Ministerial appointments and was Minister of Agriculture from 1940 to 1945. He was born in 1886, educated at Eton and Oxford, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1911, resigning in 1923 to enter politics. Keenly interested in farming, he is a member of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society.

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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 : Stoke-on-Trent Central

CANDIDATE : Stross

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. B. Stross, aged 51, who was elected for Hanley in 1945, is an expert on industrial diseases and medical adviser to the North Staffordshire Miners’ Federation and the National Society of Pottery Workers. He founded the ” Lidice Shall Live ” movement, for which he was decorated with the Order of the White Lion of Czechoslovakia.

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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 : Sutton and Cheam

CANDIDATE : Marshall

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. H. Marshall, M.P. for the division since 1945, has been for many years prominent in local government and educational affairs in Surrey. He was charter mayor of Sutton and Cheam in 1934 and coronation mayor in 1936. A member of the Surrey County Council since 1931, he became its chairman in 1947, and also served from 1941 to 1944 as chairman of the Surrey Education Committee. He parted with a large share of his business interests in 1925, but remains chairman or director of several companies.

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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 : Twickenham

CANDIDATE : Forwood

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. A. Forwood, executive memberTof Twickenham Liberal Association, was born in 1927, and is a teacher at Mill Hill. He joined the R.A.F. in 1945, and on demobilization in 1948, worked as Liberal agent at Epsom.

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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 : Walthamstow East

CANDIDATE : Barber

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. H. Barber is a publisher and author. Born in 1907, he was in early life a bank clerk. He served in the war with the Royal Engineers and the Africa Pioneer Corps, and was demobilized with the rank of captain.

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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 : Wembley North

CANDIDATE : Bullus

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. E. Bullus, born in 1906 and educated at Leeds University, is a journalist. He entered Leeds City Coun- * cil at the age of 23, -,gm *ZSF ;r and served until joining the R.A.F.V.R. in 1940. During the war he served on Lord Mount-batten’s staff in South-East Asia. He is secretary of the London Municipal Society and a member of Harrow Urban 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 : West Ham South

CANDIDATE : de la Motte

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. De La Motte was born in Johannesburg in 1912 and came to England at the age of 10. Prior to the war she was assistant secretary to the National Fitness Council for Shropshire and Herefordshire, and on the outbreak of war she joined the B.B.C. She was next regional organizer for the W.V.S. in London. Since the war her work with the W.V.S. has included assisting with the promotion of home help schemes.

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