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 : Newcastle-under-Lyme

CANDIDATE : Mack

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. D. Mack, born in Liverpool 50 years ago of working-class parents, spent some years in Leeds, and then returning to Liverpool was elected to the City Council in 1928 and remained a member for 18 years. He was returned unopposed at Newcastle under Lyme in 1942 on the elevation to the peerage of the late Lord Wedgwood. A former insurance agent, he is national leader of the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers.

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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 : Northampton

CANDIDATE : Alloway

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. H. Alloway, 55 years of age, worked for many years in a large industrial organization and is responsible for the industrial management course in a college of technology and commerce at Leicester, and is also a farmer. He lost a leg.in Flanders in the 1914-18 war and is treasurer of a branch of the British Legion, a churchwarden, and school manager.

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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 : Nottingham South

CANDIDATE : Rees-Davies

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, born in 1916, was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he was a prominent cricketer. He was called to the Bar in 1939, and is a practising barrister. Commissioned in the?Welsh Guards at the outbreak of the late war, he served later, on the staff of Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, with the Guards Armoured Division. He lost his right arm while on service.

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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 : Plymouth Devonport

CANDIDATE : Foot

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Michael Foot, born in 1913, a son of Mr. Isaac Foot, was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Wadham College, Oxford (exhibitioner). In 1933 he was president of the Oxford Union and . toured the United States as the representative of the Union. A member of the Labour Party executive, he is a journalist, and is the author of several political books.

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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 : Portsmouth West

CANDIDATE : Clarke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. T. H. Clarke was born in India in 1904, and was educated at Haileybury and Sandhurst. In the 1939 war he served at Narvik and in North Africa, France and Germany, and was three times mentioned in dispatches and became Deputy Director of Ordnance Services. He has boxed for the Army as a heavyweight and has played rugby for the Harlequins and the Army.

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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 : Reading South

CANDIDATE : Mikardo

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Mikardo, who won Reading in 1945, frequently took an independent line in Parliament, sometimes to the extent of voting against the Government. He was born at Portsmouth in 1908 and engaged in teaching journalism and translation work before specializing in commercial and industrial problems and becoming an industrial consultant. He is hon. treasurer of the Fabian Society and on the executive of the Association of Supervisory Staffs and Engineering Technicians.

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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 : Rotherham

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Jack Jones, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply in the last Government, was for 32 years a steel smelter at Manchester. Born in 1894, and educated at an elementary school and Bangor University, he has been a prominent member of the Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Federation, holding many offices locally and being a member of the executive. He was a local councillor for 14 years, and in the last Parliament sat for Bolton.

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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 : Salford West

CANDIDATE : Bell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Bell was born in 1898 on the family estate near Wigan, where he still farms 300 acres. He is managing director of Ashley Investment Trust, Manchester, and a director of other companies. Until last year he was a member of Lancashire County Council. He is a member of the Conservative Party national executive, and of the regional council of the Federation of British Industries.

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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 Neepsend

CANDIDATE : Morris

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. H. Morris was born in Sheffield in 1893, practised as a solicitor until 1936, when he was called to the Bar. He served on Sheffield City Council, 1920-27 and 1929-37. Enlisted in the ranks in the 1914-18 war and retired as captain; he rejoined in the last war, again in the ranks, and retired with the rank of colonel. Colonel Morris, who played football until he was 40, won Central Sheffield for Labour 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 : Southampton Test

CANDIDATE : Fry

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Fry, son of C. B. Fry, the famous cricketer, went to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and was in the Navy until 1920, when he retired to assist his father in charge of the Mercury Nautical School, Hamble. From 1934 to 1949 he held a number of appointments with the B.B.C., including assistant programme director, Midland Region, and research director of the B.B.C.’s New York office. He is aged 49.

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