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 : Cirencester and Tewkesbury

CANDIDATE : Gillett

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. W. Gillett was born in 1899 and is a director of an industrial finishing firm in Gloucester, where he was born. He served in the R.A.F. during the war, and spent three and a half years in the Middle East. He is chairman of the Gloucester Liberal Association.

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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 : New Forest

CANDIDATE : Crosthwaite-Eyre

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. O. E. Crosthwaite-Eyre, chairman of printing and publishing companies, rose from the ranks to become a colonel in the Royal Marines during the war, and served on the staff for the invasion of Europe. Born in 1913, he was educated at Downside and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a verderer of the New Forest. One of his ancestors sat in Parliament in Elizabeth’s reign.

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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 : Barnet

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Jones, chairman and managing director of an export business, was born in 1887 and began as an office boy. He is a freeman of the City of London, on the committee of the London Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Institute of Export, and was a co-opted member of Barnet Council during the 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 : Huntingdonshire

CANDIDATE : Renton

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David L. – M. Renton, a doctor’s son, was born at Dartford in 1908 and educated at Oundle and University College, Oxford, where he was president of the Liberal Club in 1930. He was called to the Bar in 1933, has practised in London and on the So?th-East Circuit, and was elected to the Bar Council in 1939. Commissioned in the Territorial Army in 1938, he served with the Royal Artillery in the Middle East, becoming a major in 1943. Later he was president of the British Military Court in Tripolitania. He was elected National Liberal M.P. for Huntingdonshire 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 : Faversham

CANDIDATE : Wells

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Percy Wells won the seat in the 1945 election. Aged 58, he left the Navy when 19 to visit America and the Empire, but returned to England in 1913 and became a supporter of the I.L.P., an organizer of the Workers’ Union, and a shop steward. Later he acted as agent for the Labour Party in the division. He has filled many offices in local government in Kent and served on the Central Agricultural Wages Board.

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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 : Orpington

CANDIDATE : Vaughan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. H. C. Vaughan, educated at Manchester University and Cambridge served with the forces during the war and was called to the Bar in 1946. An examiner for London University, he is a lecturer on legal subjects for the London County Council and the Kent Education Committee, and was resident lecturer at the National Adult School Union’s summer school in 1948. He is a member of the Friends’ Penal Reform 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 : Darwen

CANDIDATE : Haines

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Haines, a 39-year-old Manchester journalist, contested Darwen in 1945. During the war he had a special assignment with the political intelligence division of the Foreign Office in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and was demobilized with the rank of major.

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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 : Lancaster

CANDIDATE : Rogerson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Rogerson, a native of Lancaster and, at the age of 47, export manager of a firm of linoleum manufacturers, has travelled widely in Europe and America. When he won a seat on Lancaster City Council he was one of three Liberals in a council of 32. He is president of the Lancaster division Liberal 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 : South Fylde

CANDIDATE : Gouldbourn

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Gouldbourn, shoe and slipper manufacturer, is a former Territorial who ended his service in the war as a colonel on the staff of the 11th Army Group. Born in 1915 and educated at Heaton Moor College, Cheshire, he was for many years on the management staff of a Leicester shoe manufacturing company.

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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 : Melton

CANDIDATE : Kirby

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Kirby stood in 1945 for Har-borough. For many years head of a motor transport company in the county, he is now retired but has interests in a local firm of agricultural merchants. He is 58.

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