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 : Batley and Morley

CANDIDATE : Bremner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. W. Bremner is 34, and the wife of Mr. J. G. M. Bremner, of Stockton-on-Tees, one of the principal chemists of I.C.I, at Billingham, where she was for a time also employed. She JJ a member of the executive committee of the ^tockton Conservative Association. She was born in Batley, where her father owns a manufacturing chemist’s business, and went to Leeds University and Cambridge.

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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 : Birkenhead

CANDIDATE : Coulthard

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Coulthard, born in Birkenhead in 1898, enlisted during the first world war at the age of 16 and saw service oversea before being sent home as under age. He re-enlisted when of age and was gassed on the Somme. He spent several years in the United States, and is a book shop manager.

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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 Ladywood

CANDIDATE : Yates

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. Yates, who won the seat from Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd in 1945, was born in 1900. He won two scholarships— one for an industrial training course at Birmingham University, and the other at Ruskin College, Oxford, where he spent a year studying j economics and political science. For a number of years he has served on the city council and in other public offices ; and for a time was on the national executive of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ 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 : Birmingham Sparkbrook

CANDIDATE : Debenham

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. K. Debenham is a great-nephew of Joseph Chamberlain. Aged 44, he holds honours degrees in economics and history. From 1930 to 1941 he was a member of the staff of the Economic Advisory Council and from 1934 was also secretary of the Committee of Economic Information. During the war he was in The Coldstream Guards, but having transferred to the civil affairs organization created to administer liberated European countries, he became deputy chief of the financial branch of the German Control Commission.

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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 : Blackpool South

CANDIDATE : Robinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Wg. Cdr. J. R. Robinson entered the House of Commons as Conservative M.P. for Widnes in 1931, going to Blackpool in 1935. He is a native of the town, and was educated at Blackpool Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1929. He served with the R.A.F. from 1940 to 1945 and ended his service with the rank of wing

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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 : Bournemouth East and Christchurch

CANDIDATE : Holland

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. Holland, the son of a Dorset farmer, was born in 1902. He is principal of a firm of poultry farmers, a member of the Council of the Poultry Association, and a director of the National Egg Packers’ Association. Mr. Holland has toured Denmark studying poultry production and distribution.

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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 South

CANDIDATE : Rushworth

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Rushworth, aged 37, is a member of a Bradford family associated with Liberalism for many years. Educated at Cambridge, he has taught classics in Hereford Cathedral School and held a post in Manchester Grammar School, but moved to Leicester in 1949.

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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 : Bristol North East

CANDIDATE : Coldrick

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. w. Coldrick, wno was for two years parliamentary Secretary lo the Ministry of Agriculture, was born in 1896 •urn educated at elementary schools, night school, and London Labour Col-* Has been active in «aae unionism and the r°,”°Perative movement, a™ is the chairman of rS, National Committee jt n,e Co-operative Party. anH i S also been a Labour College organizer “Q lecturer, and a county councillor for nlonmouthshire. He was elected M.P. for “nstol North 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 : Bromley

CANDIDATE : Macmillan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Harold Macmillan was elected for ftockton – on – Tees in ly24, and though unseated in 1929 he re-gamed the seat in 1931 and held it until the 1945 General Election. He was returned to Parliament again in November, 1945, for Bromley. He «as been Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry ot Supply and Under-194^^ of State for the Colonies, and from y to 1945 was Minister Resident in Northwest Africa. In the “caretaker” Government of May-July, 1945, he became Secretary anH eufor Alr- A«ed 56′ he is a Publisher th ,a, or- He was wounded three times in me 1914-18 war.

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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 : Cheltenham

CANDIDATE : Beach

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. W. Hicks Beach was also the Conservative candidate in 1945. Aged 43, he was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and is a solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn. He served in the war with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (T.A.), which he joined in 1933 ; was adjutant in 1940, and commanded a squadron for three and a half years before becoming second in command. He is a great nephew of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1895, 1902.

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