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 : Overell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. K. Overell, born in 1895 and a tutor holding a degree in economics from London University, spent six years in Japan attached to the Edu?ation department of the old Japanese Imperial Government. He is a specialist and lecturer in judo.

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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 : Ilford North

CANDIDATE : Ridealgh

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. Ridealgh, who won Ilford North in the 1945 election, is the wife of an engineer and a former president of the Women’s Cooperative Guild. Specially interested in housing she has described the plight of Ilford in this respect as the ” worst in the country.” She was born in 1898.

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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 East

CANDIDATE : Heyting

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Heyting, who was born in 1902, was educated at London University and Columbia University, New York, where he gained degrees in law. He was a legal adviser to Columbia University 1929-31, and has travelled widely on legal business. At the outbreak of war he joined the Australian Army as a private and was later commissioned. In 1947 he was elected a member of the executive committee of the Hampstead Conservative 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 : Leeds North East

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. V. Jones is aged 36. A company director, he designs exhibition stands. He practises profit-sharing and co-partnership in his firm. For three years in the last war he served in 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 : Leeds West

CANDIDATE : Rhodes

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Rhodes, aged 48, is the son of a Bradford man who became one of the pioneers of the Hull fruit trade. As a youth lie sailed round the world and afterwards served throughout the 1914-18 war. He is vice-chairman of the Withernsea Urban 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 : Leyton

CANDIDATE : Sorensen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. W. Sorensen has represented the old West Leyton division in Parliament since 1935 and from 1929 to 1931. At the 1945 election he had a majority of 8,729. He started work at 14 as an errand boy, studied to enter the ministry, and became minister of the Free Christian Church, Walthamstow. In 1923 he joined the local Labour Party and became a member of the Walthamstow Council and of the Essex County Council. He is keenly interested in Colonial affairs and is a vice-president of the Indian Friendship League and a member of the Fabian Colonial Bureau Advice Committee.

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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 Kirkdale

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D.?J. Lewis, an architect practising in Liverpool, was born at Aberystwyth and educated at the University there and at Liverpool. He has been on the city council since 1935 and is chairman of the Corporation Estate Committee. He is a member of the probation and juvenile panels. He is chairman of Liverpool Welsh Choral Union.

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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 : Luton

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. C. Hill is well known as the ” Radio Doctor,” and holds the following appointments : Secretary of the British Medical Association and Central Medical War Committee ; president of the World Medical Association ; secretary of the Commonwealth Medical Conference; vice-president of the Central Council for Health Education ; and member of the Industrial Health Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labour. His broadcast a few days before the election was regarded by many people as one of the most notable of the series. He contested Cambridge unsuccessfully as an Independent 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 : Manchester Exchange

CANDIDATE : Harper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. S. Harper, a director of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, was born in 1902, and educated at Manchester and at the Ashridge Political College, Herts. From 1921 to 1932 he was employed in general and electrical engineering. He has been a member of Manchester City Council since 1932, and was also a member of Lord Soulbury’s committee on Unemployment Assistance. He has held political posts in Manchester as secretary and agent.

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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 : Merton and Morden

CANDIDATE : Ryder

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. R. E. D. Ryder, R.N., V.C, was born in 1908 and was educated at Cheltenham College. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1925, and was awarded the King’s Dirk while serving in the cadet training ship H.M.S. Erebus. He was promoted commander in December, 1940, and captain in June, 1948, and commanded the research vessel Penola on the Rymill Expedition to the Antarctic. He was naval liaison officer on the staff of Field-Marshal Alexander at the headquarters of Southern Command. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for the part he played while in command of the naval forces in the St. Nazaire raid in 1943, and was three times mentioned in dispatches. Since the war he has been British Naval Attache at Oslo.

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