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 West

CANDIDATE : Bishop

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. S. D. Bishop, aged 28, had a secondary school education and took Bristol University extra-mural studies in economics. He is a draughtsman with an aeronautical company. He has been a Bristol City Councillor since 1946. He is a keen Church worker and interested in youth movements, and a member of Bristol executive council of the National Health 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 : Carlisle

CANDIDATE : Hargreaves

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Hargreaves is an official of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He was hon. secretary of West Derby (Liverpool) Labour Party in 1926, and president of Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party in 1945. Since 1928 he has been on the city council, and he is a member of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board as the nominee of the Ministry of Transport. He is active in the W.E.A. movement, and on the Liverpool Council of Social 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 : Coventry South

CANDIDATE : Burton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Burton, born in 1904, taught in Leeds for 11 years and afterwards worked for the South Wales Council of Social Service. She organized keep – fit schemes and swimming in various London centres. She is a founder member of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women.

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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 : Dagenham

CANDIDATE : Parker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Parker, aged 43, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Dominions Office in 1945-46, and has been a Member of Parliament since 1935. He has been vice-chairman of the Fabian Society since 1946, and a member of the Labour Party executive. In 1945 he was a member of a Parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union, and he has been a member of the Transport and General Workers’ Union Group in the House of Commons. He served at one time as Parliamentary private secretary to Miss Ellen Wilkinson at the Ministry of Home Security.

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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 : Dewsbury

CANDIDATE : Paling

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Will T. Paling, brother of the former postmaster-General, is •>?>> and began work in a coalmine. After attend-un n evening classes in ^.iy he won a scholar-^n’P to the Central Labour College, London, where he trained as a lecturer in economics, industrial history and sociology. In 1924 he mf V,0, the Yorkshire “iinetield, whence he became a check weigh-™an and active in the Miners’ Association. Co W ia member °f West Riding 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 : Ealing South

CANDIDATE : Corn

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss B. Corn lives in Barking and is employed m the offices of Holborn Borough Council. Assistant secretary of the National League of Young Liberals, 1943-45, she restarted the Home Counties Young Liberals federation in 1945, acting as secretary. She ls a member of the council of the 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 : Enfield East

CANDIDATE : Turner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. W. C. Turner enlisted in the R.A.F. in 1940 and served in South Africa, East Africa, Malta, Sicily, and Italy. He was a member of the Desert Air Force Squadron throughout the North African campaign. He was commissioned in July, 1943, and awarded the D.F.C. in 1944. Subsequently he was invalided ovit of the R.A.F.

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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 : Gateshead East

CANDIDATE : Zilliacus

PARTY : Lab. Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Zilliacus, who won Gateshead in 1945, was expelled from the Labour Party last year for persistently criticizing the Government’s foreign policy. He was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1894, his father being of Swedish-Finnish and his mother of American-Scottish birth. He was educated at Petersfield, Hants, and Yale University, where he graduated ” First of his year,” and he speaks eight languages. In the first world war he served with the Royal Flying Corps and was intelligence officer with the British Military Mission in Siberia.

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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 : Halifax

CANDIDATE : Blackburn

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Blackburn was born in 1906 at Sowerby Bridge. He is managing director of a Halifax firm of spinners, and for three years has been treasurer of the Bradford Dyers’ and Finishers’ Association. He was until recently a vice-president of the Bradford Conservative Association. He was nominated after the Conservative and Liberal associations in the division had failed to reach agreement on the proposal for a joint anti-Socialist candidate.

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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 : Hastings

CANDIDATE : Hurd

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. L. M. Hurd, who was born in 1922, is a solicitor practising at Rye and in the City of London. In 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman and served in minesweepers, transferring later to the light cruiser H.M.S. Bellona, which took part in the Normandy invasion and in Russian convoy duties. He is the first Liberal to contest Hastings for many years.

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