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 : Buckinghamshire South

CANDIDATE : Dee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Dee, born in 1904, is a draughtsman and was president of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen in 1947-48. He held office in the Balham and Tooting Labour Party from 1924 to 1931, and since 1947 has been a member of the executive of the Southern Regional Council of the Labour Party. He is commercial manager of an engineering firm in north-west London, and in 1947 was appointed to the Council of Industrial Design.

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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 : Crewe

CANDIDATE : Turner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. J. R. T. Turner, in practice in Nant-wich, was educated at Shrewsbury, Cambridge, and St. George’s Hospital, London. He was chairman of the Nantwich branch of the Conservative Party from 1945 to 1947 and has served on the Nantwich U.D.C.

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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 : Stalybridge and Hyde

CANDIDATE : Herrick

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. P. Herrick was born in Birmingham 50 years ago and went to work in a Hyde cotton mill at the age of 13. After long unemployment he became a miner and is now in the engineering industry. He served in the R.A.F. in a glider training unit during the war. Formerly in the Labour Party, he failed by seven votes to secure election to the local town 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 : Truro

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Wilson was born in 1903 and was educated at Clifton and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in history. A solicitor, he was senior assistant in the parliamentary and general section of the Great Western Railway, but resigned a few years ago because of his attitude towards nationalization. He was formerly connected with the West Islington Young Conservatives, and in 1945 formed a branch at Marlow.

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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 : High Peak

CANDIDATE : Molson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hugh Molson was M.P. for Doncaster from 1931 to 1935 and for the High Peak from 1939. Born in 1903 he was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth naval colleges, and at Oxford, where he gained first-class honours in jurisprudence; he was president of the Union in 1925. He is a barrister, and during the war was a staff captain in the Anti-Aircraft forces.

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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 : Honiton

CANDIDATE : Barrington

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. Guy Barrington is 45 years of age, and entered the Army through Sandhurst. Much of his service in the last war was in India and Burma, and he finished up as Brigadier in charge of administration on the staff of Field-Marshal Sir William Slim. Retiring in 1946, he took up farming at Hawkchurch in Devon.

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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 : Totnes

CANDIDATE : Tapscott

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Tapscott has for 25 years been a militant trade unionist. He is a former president of the Plymouth and District Trades Council and he served on the central committee of the Plymouth Trades Council during the 1926 strike. Between the wars he was active in the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, and as secretary of the S willy and North Prospect Tenants’ Association he recently organized opposition to local increases in the rents of council houses.

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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 : Chester-le-Street

CANDIDATE : Millican

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. M. Millican is 32, and head of a Newcastle firm of glass and paint manufacturers. Educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh, he entered the family business, and is chairman of the North-Eastern Glass Manufacturers’ Association. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery and rose to the rank of major. He is a leading Rugby player, captained the Northern team, and is secretary.

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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 : Sedgefield

CANDIDATE : Walford

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. E. S. Walford, a Regular officer for 29 years until 1947, serving first with The Worcestershire Regiment and then with the Royal Corps of Signals, was educated at Malvern and Sandhurst. He is a well-known cricketer, having played for Worcestershire, the Army, the M.C.C., and All Egypt. His wife was Conservative candidate at Darlington He was born in 1899.

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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 : Harwich

CANDIDATE : Janis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Janis was taken prisoner of war at Singapore and held by the Japanese for three and a half years, working on the Siam railway and being later transferred to Japan, where he became a liaison officer and interpreter. Now aged 37 and a leather goods merchant, he began life as a shop assistant.

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