CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Clapham
CANDIDATE : Draper
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. G. M. Draper, born in 1919, joined the Labour Party League of Youth at 15, and the Young Communist League at 16. She is now a full-time political worker at Communist headquarters.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Accrington
CANDIDATE : Procter
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Maj. H. A. Procter sat for Accrington from 1931 to 1945. Born in Liverpool in 1883 he served an apprenticeship to engineering, and afterwards worked his passage to America, where he pursued his studies. Subsequently he attended Melbourne and Edinburgh Universities, studying philosophy, political science, and law, and was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1931. He has patented many inventions connected with the hydro-genation of coal. During the 1914-18 war Maj. Procter served in Europe with the Australian forces.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barnsley
CANDIDATE : Collindridge
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Collindridge, born in 1893, went to work in the mines at the age of 13. At 19 he emigrated to Canada, but returned after a few years during the first world war. For 22 years he was a trade union official, and became M.P. for Barnsley at a by-election in 1938. During the wartime Coalition Government he was for two years Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Mines. In 1945 he was appointed a Labour Whip, and the year after Comptroller of the Household. He visited Russia in 1936 with a National Union of Mineworkers’ delegation.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bexley
CANDIDATE : Job
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. Job is an electrical fitter and a shop steward at Deptford East power station and chairman of Bexley Communist Party. He is a lecturer on social, economic, and political subjects. He is 35.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Erdington
CANDIDATE : Fitzgerald
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. A. Fitzgerald is an ex-regular soldier who was born in 1896. In the 1914-18 war he was with The Gordon Highlanders and the Machine Gun Corps, and continued with the Royal Tank Regiment until 1939, when he retired as a staff sergeant. In the last war he commanded a Home Guard company.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Northfield
CANDIDATE : Richards
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. Richards is an undergraduate at Worcester College. He is aged 23, and is a uauve of Swansea. His studies at Oxford were “terrupted by a period in the Forces, but he returned to the University in 1947. He was a SJ of the University Liberal Committee, ad h l id hilf i h y , I y °49» and has also interested himself in the university Liberal Club and the Union of university Liberal Societies.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Yardley
CANDIDATE : Ritchie
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. S. Ritchie is 58 and was apprenticed to a firm of engravers in the City of London, later working in Manchester. Moving to Bournemouth, he was employed at a royal ordnance factory in Dorset during the war. Alter being associated with the Labour Party tor a time, he rejoined the Liberals on moving to Southampton, where he has done much public speaking.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolton East
CANDIDATE : Holt
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. F. Holt, a native of Bolton, was born in 1914, educated at Mill Hill School and Manchester Technical College. With his two brothers he has built up in Bolton an industry new to the town. A territorial in 1939, he later became a company commander and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford East
CANDIDATE : McLeavy
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. McLeavy was elected for East Bradford in 1945. He is 51, and was formerly a road transport inspector in Birkenhead. A member of the T. and G.W.U. for many years, he was the first Labour mayor of Bebington, where he lives. He is also a county alderman of Cheshire. He was a member of Party delegations to China in 1947 and Norway in 1949.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighton Kemptown
CANDIDATE : Johnson
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. S. Johnson is 38, and a solicitor. A pre-war Territorial, he served in Africa in the war and was invalided out as a major. He was a member of Brighton Town Council from 1945 until last May, when he retired. Educated at Brighton and Highgate, he has spent most of his life in the town. He is also a director of 14 land and estate development companies
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