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 : Buckingham

CANDIDATE : Markham

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. F. Markham was successively Labour and National Labour M.P. for Rochester, 1929-31. He was joint Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. He then left the Party and was elected National M.P. for South Nottingham in 1935, losing the seat in 1945. He was educated at Stony Stratford and Wolverton, and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is an author, a Fellow of several learned societies, and an expert on museums. He is 53.

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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

CANDIDATE : McKinnon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. C. McKinnon, a Presbyterian minister in Liverpool, was the founder of the Labour Party in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and introduced the Co-operative movement there. A padre during the war, he won the M.C. at Salerno for saving wounded under fire.

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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 : Lang

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. Gordon Lang was born in 1893 and educated at ?on-mouth Grammar School and Theological College. Joining the Labour Party in 1916, he was senior M.P. for Oldham, 1929-31, and was elected for Stalybridge and Hyde in 1945, after fighting Old-ham in 1931 and 1935 and the Stalybridge by-election in 1937. A member of the Fabian Society, he led Parliamentary delegations to Japan in 1946 and 1947. He is on the Chairmen’s Panel at the House, chairman of the Proportional Representation Society, a founder member of Christian Action, and is on the international executive of the European 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 : St Ives

CANDIDATE : Howard

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Greville R. Howard is a member of Westminster City Council and was mayor in 1947. Forty years of age, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and was commissioned in The Somerset Light Infantry. He relinquished his commission in order to go into business and take up local government work. Before the last war he joined the R.N.V.R. and served through the war in command of destroyers.

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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 : Belper

CANDIDATE : Lawrie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. Lawrie, aged 47, director and editor of a technical journal, was trained as an industrial chemist and worked in the coal and sugar industries. He was commissioned in a Territorial Anti-Aircraft Regiment before the war, and during the war he commanded a Home Guard anti-aircraft unit in Hyde Park, and was senior censor of scientific publications at the Ministry of Information.

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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 : Derbyshire West

CANDIDATE : Strange

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. F. Strange, a solicitor, who was born in 1886, is president of the High Peak Liberal Association and of the Buxton Liberal Association. He served as a private with the West Yorks Regiment in the first world war until invalided out at the end of 1915. He played golf regularly for Derbyshire before the 1939-45 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 : Totnes

CANDIDATE : Rayner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. R. H. Rayner began his career in the diplomatic service but on the declaration of war in 1914 he went into the Army, transferring to the Indian Army in 1917. In 1928 he went as A.D.C. to Lord Willingdon when the latter was Governor-General of Canada. He also served in the last war. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and in 1931 was secretary to the British Arctic Expedition to Greenland. Entering Parliament as member for Totnes in 1935, he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Pensions.

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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 : Blaydon

CANDIDATE : Whiteley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. William Whiteley aged 67, was Chief Whip in the Labour Government and was Joint Chief Whip in Mr. Churchill’s war – time Government. He became a Privy Councillor in 1943, and in 1948 was made a C.H. He was born in the mining village of Little-burn, studied to become a mine manager, entered trade union work, and was a miners’ agent when elected for Blaydon in 1922.

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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 : Durham North West

CANDIDATE : Murray

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Murray, who was born in 1887, began work in a Durham pit at 13 and was hewing coal at 16. He is a member of a family of 12 brought up in a miner’s three-roomed cottage. Later a colliery checkweighman, he was elected M.P. for the former Spennymoor Division in 1942. A member of the Labour Party since 1907, he has been a county councillor for 17 years and is chairman of the mines group of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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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 : Epping

CANDIDATE : Manning

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Leah Manning first entered Parliament in 1931 as member for East Islington, and won Epping in the 1945 election. Born in Illinois, she was educated at St. John’s School, Bridg-water, and at Homerton College, Cambridge, and became head mistress of the Open-Air School at Cambridge. She is a past president of the National Union of Teachers, of which she has also been organizing secretary.

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