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 : Bristol North West

CANDIDATE : Braithwaite

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. J. Gurney Braithwaite represented the old Holderness division of East Yorkshire from 1939 to 1950 and sat as M.P. for the Hillsborough division of Sheffield from 1931 to 1935. Now a stockbroker, much of his earlier life was spent in the Navy, and in the 1914-18 war he took part in the Suvla Bay landing and the Palestine operations. In the last war he took part in the organization of convoys sailing from the Thames estuary.

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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 : Burnley

CANDIDATE : Burke

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. w. A. Burke, who was elected for Burnley in 1935 was Assistant Postmaster-General from 1945 to 1947.He entered commercial life in Manchester in 1918, and two later became Manchester organizer of the National union of Distributive and Allied 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 : Chesterfield

CANDIDATE : Benson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Benson was member for the division from 1929 to 1931 and continuously from 1935 to the dissolution. Aged 60, he was educated at Manchester Grammar school and is a Partner in a firm of estate agents in Manchester. He is chairman ol the Howard League for Penal Reform, and a member of the Home yiuce Advisory Council on delinquency He ls the author of books on finance and accountancy.

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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 : Crosby

CANDIDATE : Burnie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. Burnie, born in 1882, was formerly M.P. for Bootle, being the first Liberal to represent that borough in the House of Commons. At one time he was the only Liberal on the Bootle town council. He served in the 1914-18 war and gained the M.C., and has been mayor of Bootle.

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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 : Darlington

CANDIDATE : Walford

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. G. Walford, aged 41, and the mother of two daughters, is the wife of Lt.-Col. J. E. S. Walford, who contested the neighbouring Sedgefield division. She is the daughter of Sir Murdoch Wilson, who was Unionist M.P. for Richmond (Yorks), 1918-29. During that time she was secretary of Richmond Women’s Unionist Association. She has been a member of Durham County Council since 1946.

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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 : Droylsden

CANDIDATE : Woods

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. G. S. Woods, who was born in 1886, entered Parliament as Labour M.P. for Fins-bury in 1935 and was returned for Mossley in 1945. He was President of the Yorkshire Unitarian Union in 1932-34. He has been chairman of the local Labour Parties at Taunton and York, and he is on the national executive of the Cooperative movement, and a director of the Co-operative Press. He has served on the York City 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 : East Ham South

CANDIDATE : Jordan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. E. Jordan, who was born in 1894, holds an appointment in the Chief Engineer’s Department of the Railway Executive. He has had much experience of staff welfare and trade union problems for over 20 years. He served with the Queen’s Westminsters in 1914-18 and became a senior instructor in Western Command.

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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 : Eton and Slough

CANDIDATE : Brockway

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Fenner Brockway, journalist and politician, was formerly secretary and chairman of the t *? He represented fast Leyton from 1929 t0 1931. Among his unsuccessful contests was °ne against Mr. Churchill ‘” me Abbey Division of Westminster in 1924. Uunng the first world ™ar he served terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve in the Forces, and he has always taken a strong line for peace and international friendship.

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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 : Gloucester

CANDIDATE : Turner-Samuels

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Turner-samuels, K.C., Recorder of Halifax, was M.P. for Barnard Castle, 1923-24, and formerly sat on Newcastle – upon – Tyne City Council. He was High Sheriff for Gloucester, 1946-47, and is a writer on legal and political subjects. Born in lo90. He was elected M.P. for Gloucester 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 : Harrow East

CANDIDATE : Skinnard

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Skinnard, a former L.C.C. schoolmaster, aged 48, when serving in Willesden schools did pioneer work in citizenship training and local survey work. He has been a lecturer to teachers’ courses in England and abroad, and in 1937 was invited to tour the United States and Canada. His early political experience was gained in the Union of Democratic Control, and he joined the Labour Party in 1924. He visited Jamaica in 1946 and was on the Parliamentary delegation to W. Africa in 1947. He was elected for Harrow East in 1945.

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