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 : Heston and Isleworth

CANDIDATE : Harris

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. R. Harris, born in 1913 and called to the Bar in 1941, has been secretary of the National Tyre Distributors Association s-ince 1947. An officer of the National Fire Service from 1941 to 1945 he later became secretary of the National Association of Fire Officers. A member of the Council of the National Church League and secretary of the London meeting of Lay churchmen.

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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 : Huddersfield West

CANDIDATE : Bolt

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Bolt is president of the divisional Labour Party in Farnham, Surrey, where he lives. A fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, he is an adviser to the Parliamentary Labour Party on finance and taxation measures, and a public auditor. He is aged 48. He has been a member of the Labour Party for more than a quarter of a century and is also a member of the Co-operative movement.

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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 : Kingston upon Hull Central

CANDIDATE : Hardcastle

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. R. Hardcastle, who was born in 1903, is managing director of a Hull firm of motor and agricultural engineers. A member of Haltemprice Urban Council and of Hull Chamber of Commerce, he is also chairman of Haltemprice Divisional Liberal Association, and a member of the executive committee of the Yorkshire Area Liberal Federation.

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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 : Leeds North East

CANDIDATE : Bacon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Alice Bacon won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. She is a school teacher, and the daughter of a miner. She is vice-chairman of the national executive of the Labour Party. Previously she had been secretary of the West Riding Federation of the Labour Party’s League of Youth. She has been on Labour Party delegations to Russia—where she had an interview with Marshal Stalin—Poland, Canada, the United States, Vienna and Israel.

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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 : Leeds West

CANDIDATE : Pannell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. C. Pannell is 46 and has had nearly 30 years’ service in the Labour movement as a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He was a member of the Kent County Council from 1946 to 1949. He retained West Leeds for Labour at a by-election in July, 1949, with a reduced majority of 4,109.

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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 : Leigh

CANDIDATE : Boardman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Boardman was for nine years an official of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Trades. At the time of his election in 1945 he was a member of the executive committee of the Sale Labour Party and the Altrincham Divisional Labour Party. He is a former member of Derby Town Council, and has been chairman of the Derby Labour Party. He has been chairman of Derby Labour College and chairman of the Derby Co-operative Society’s Joint Advisory Committee. In the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Labour.

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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 : Liverpool Garston

CANDIDATE : Blease

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. L. Blease is a well-known Liverpool barrister who recently retired from a law professorship at Liverpool University to which he was appointed in 1919. He was public orator at the University for 1931. Educated at Shrewsbury and Liverpool University, he was called to the Bar in 1906.

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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 : Liverpool West Derby

CANDIDATE : Fyfe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., sat for this division from 1935. He was born in 1900 and educated at Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford. During the 1914-18 war he served with the Scots Guards. He took silk in 1934 and later was appointed Recorder of Oldham and became a member of the General Council of the Bar. In 1942 he was appointed Solicitor-General and became Attorney-General in the ” caretaker ” Government in 1945. He went to the Nuremberg trials as deputy chairman of the British War Crimes Executive and there made an international reputation as cross-examiner of the Nazi criminals. In 1947 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Liverpool University.

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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 : Manchester Clayton

CANDIDATE : Walls

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Walls, a Stockport solicitor, was born in 1892 at Moston. Articled in Birmingham, he won the medal of the Law Society and was admitted as a solicitor. In 1942 he was president of Stockport Law Society. For 17 years he has been a member of the Hazel Grove and Bramhall District Council, and was chairman in 1943. He is vice-president of the Knutsford Divisional Liberal Association.

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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 : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Noble

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Noble, a chartered accountant, joined the Liberal Party last year. Born in 1911, he was secretary to a cotton mill company before joining the army. He served with the Intelligence Corps and the R.A.S.C, and spent three years in India. He is a merchant converter of cotton textiles.

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