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 : Wandsworth Clapham

CANDIDATE : Lowndes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. L. Lowndes was born in New Zealand in 1911. He worked there as a schoolmaster and on irrigation and farm mechanization projects, and in 1936 became an insurance broker in London. He served in Egypt and Libya in 1940-41, and was captured by the Afrika Korps. He contested the constituency unsuccessfully in 1945. He is a partner in the family business.

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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 : Woolwich West

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. R. Roberts, aged 51, is chief inspector of the Pharmaceutical Society and a barrister. At Chislehurst he is secretary of the Liberal Association, and an active worker in the St. John Ambulance and Scout movements.

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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 : Barking

CANDIDATE : Willcock

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. H. Willcock was 54 on the eve of the election, and is general manager of a firm of cleaners. Before he left his native Yorkshire to come south he was for 20 years hon. secretary of the Horsforth Liberal Association. He is president of the Essex County Liberal Federation, and a member of the Home Counties Liberal Executive. He unsuccessfully contested Barking 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 : Beckenham

CANDIDATE : Bain

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Bain, a Scotsman, was in the 1945 election defeated by Mr. H. Macmillan in the Bromley division, which then included Becken-ham. He has served on the National Executive of the Society of Electro and Stereotypers.

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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 : Birmingham Erdington

CANDIDATE : Silverman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Julius Silverman, wno gained the seat from Air Cdr. Wright in 1945, was born in 1905, and nad an elementary and secondary education, rirst employed as a warehouseman, he later ltlor the Bar and was at Gray’s Inn in 1931. He practises in ngham. For 11 years until 1945 he was a rnem-Oer of the 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 : Birmingham Northfield

CANDIDATE : Blackburn

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Raymond Blackburn, who was born in 1915, was educated at J^ugby, studied law at London University, and was awarded the Newton Irize of the Law Society. He served in the Army from 1939 to 1945, and was promoted to captain. He won the King’s Norton division from the Conservatives in 1945 with a 12,298 majority. He is a member of the Parliamentary Labour I’arty group on external affairs. In his Publications he has given a great deal of attention to the problems and rights of soldiers.

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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 : Birmingham Yardley

CANDIDATE : Usborne

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. C. Usborne was M.P. for Acocks Green in the last Parliament. Aged 41, Mr. Usborne lived in the Punjab as a child, his father being in the Indian Civil Service. He gained an honours degree in engineering at Cambridge and in 1932 he started as an oil combustion engineer, founding a company of which he is now chairman. He is vice-president of the National Peace 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 : Bolton East

CANDIDATE : Booth

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Booth was born on February 24, 1893, and started work as a half-timer. For 16 years he was a member of Bolton Town Council and has been mayor. He has taken a great interest in the work of the local Y.M.C.A., and is also chairman of t?e Bolton Savings Committee. He is a Methodist local preacher.

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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 : Bradford Central

CANDIDATE : Boyce

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Boyce, who was born in Worcestershire in 1882, was a schoolmaster in Liverpool and Blackburn. He worked for the Royal Navy in the war on research with smoke floats and depth charges. Later, ‘he was deputy director of education at Coventry and director at Middlesbrough, before his appointment to Bradford in a similar capacity in 1925. He is now retired.

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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 : Brighouse and Spenborough

CANDIDATE : Cobb

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. A. Cobb won Elland for Labour in 1945. Born in 1901, he served in the Merchant Navy during the 1914-18 war. He is a radio engineer and general manager of a firm producing wireless equipment. An associate of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, he is also a member of the American Institute of Radio Engineers.

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