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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Droylsden Constituency – Biography of Woods

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Droylsden Constituency – Biography of Woods

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Droylsden

    CANDIDATE : Woods

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    The Rev. G. S. Woods, who was born in 1886, entered Parliament as Labour M.P. for Fins-bury in 1935 and was returned for Mossley in 1945. He was President of the Yorkshire Unitarian Union in 1932-34. He has been chairman of the local Labour Parties at Taunton and York, and he is on the national executive of the Cooperative movement, and a director of the Co-operative Press. He has served on the York City Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : East Ham South Constituency – Biography of Jordan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : East Ham South Constituency – Biography of Jordan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : East Ham South

    CANDIDATE : Jordan

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. E. Jordan, who was born in 1894, holds an appointment in the Chief Engineer’s Department of the Railway Executive. He has had much experience of staff welfare and trade union problems for over 20 years. He served with the Queen’s Westminsters in 1914-18 and became a senior instructor in Western Command.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eton and Slough Constituency – Biography of Brockway

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eton and Slough Constituency – Biography of Brockway

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eton and Slough

    CANDIDATE : Brockway

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Fenner Brockway, journalist and politician, was formerly secretary and chairman of the t *? He represented fast Leyton from 1929 t0 1931. Among his unsuccessful contests was °ne against Mr. Churchill ‘” me Abbey Division of Westminster in 1924. Uunng the first world ™ar he served terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve in the Forces, and he has always taken a strong line for peace and international friendship.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucester Constituency – Biography of Turner-Samuels

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucester Constituency – Biography of Turner-Samuels

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gloucester

    CANDIDATE : Turner-Samuels

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. Turner-samuels, K.C., Recorder of Halifax, was M.P. for Barnard Castle, 1923-24, and formerly sat on Newcastle – upon – Tyne City Council. He was High Sheriff for Gloucester, 1946-47, and is a writer on legal and political subjects. Born in lo90. He was elected M.P. for Gloucester in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harrow East Constituency – Biography of Skinnard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harrow East Constituency – Biography of Skinnard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harrow East

    CANDIDATE : Skinnard

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. W. Skinnard, a former L.C.C. schoolmaster, aged 48, when serving in Willesden schools did pioneer work in citizenship training and local survey work. He has been a lecturer to teachers’ courses in England and abroad, and in 1937 was invited to tour the United States and Canada. His early political experience was gained in the Union of Democratic Control, and he joined the Labour Party in 1924. He visited Jamaica in 1946 and was on the Parliamentary delegation to W. Africa in 1947. He was elected for Harrow East in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hendon North Constituency – Biography of Orr-Ewing

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hendon North Constituency – Biography of Orr-Ewing

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hendon North

    CANDIDATE : Orr-Ewing

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing, born in 1912, became prospective candidate for the constituency in 1946. He served an apprenticeship in the radio industry and joined the B.B.C. television service in 1937, but resigned last year to devote more time to politics. Throughout the war he worked on radar in the R.A.F., serving in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. Resuming?his political career, he became a member of the executive of the Conservative Party in 1947-48, and has been a prominent speaker at the Party’s recent conferences.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hornsey Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hornsey Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hornsey

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. J. Jones, a London teacher born in 1905, is a member of the London district committee of the Communist Party, and has worked in Hornsey local affairs for many years. In the 1945 election he polled 10,058 votes, the third highest Communist poll.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ipswich Constituency – Biography of Ripley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ipswich Constituency – Biography of Ripley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ipswich

    CANDIDATE : Ripley

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. W. L. Ripley is chairman and managing director of printing firms in London. Born in 1909, he was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and was a flight lieutenant, R.A.F.V.R., in the war. He represents Coombe on Surrey County Council, is a member of Maiden and Coombe Borough Council, and is on the governing body of Gipsy Hill Training College for Teachers. He is vice-chairman of Kingston Conservative Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kingston upon Hull North Constituency – Biography of Atkinson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kingston upon Hull North Constituency – Biography of Atkinson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kingston upon Hull North

    CANDIDATE : Atkinson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. S. Atkinson, a former Labour member of Hull City Council, seceded from the Labour Party in 1947 because of its ” totalitarian trend.” A commercial traveller, he is a member of the national executive of the United Kingdom Commercial Travellers’ Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds North West Constituency – Biography of Hogley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds North West Constituency – Biography of Hogley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds North West

    CANDIDATE : Hogley

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. O. Hogley, a Huddersfield man, is 34 years of age and managing director of a firm of painters and decorators. He served m the Army for five years on constructional and administrative work. He has specially interested himself in housing problems and is also well known as a Methodist lay preacher.

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