CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds South East
CANDIDATE : Hope
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. Hope is a farmer and market gardener with a business in South-East Leeds, who has tried unsuccessfully to secure election to the City Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester South West
CANDIDATE : Pratt
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. A. Pratt was born in Leicester in 1913, and in 1934 became a fellow of the Royal Economic Society, then an associate of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, and in 1940 an associate of the Institute of Taxation. During the war he served in the National Fire Service and also in the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance, of which he was a vice-president. Since 1939 he has practised as ?n incorporated accountant and as secretary of the British Hosiery Manufacturers’ Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool Garston
CANDIDATE : Hewitt
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. Hewitt is a member of Preston Borough Council and a local Methodist preacher. Aged 52, he unsuccessfully contested Fylde in 1945. He owns a manufacturing firm at Preston.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool Wavertree
CANDIDATE : Parry
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. J. V. Parry’s father was a cousin of the first Earl Lloyd-George. Educated at the county school and Bangor University, Mr. Parry is a pharmacist and optician. Aged 47, he is a Methodist local preacher and past president of the Federal Free Church Council for Stockport and district, and he is also president of the National Association of Opticians. For three years he was a member of the Stockport Urban Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Clayton
CANDIDATE : Broome
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. H. Broome is 27, and won a history scholarship at Cambridge which he could not take up owing to the war. As a test engineer for aircraft he was severely injured during a flight, but later joined the Fleet Air Arm and saw service in the Pacific, and was wounded. On demobilization he graduated at Oxford, and is a technical officer with I.C.I.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Wythenshawe
CANDIDATE : Bridges
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. W. Bridges was born in 1904, and, after being a coalminer for a period, became a railway shunter. He was, in 1936, elected a member of the Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council, and became an alderman in 1945. In 1948-49 he was president of the Welsh Regional Council of Labour, and is secretary of the South Wales and Monmouthshire district council of the National Union of Railwaymen.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nelson and Colne
CANDIDATE : Green
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. Green was born in 1911 and was educated at Brighton College and London University, where he studied history and economics. In 1935 he joined a Blackburn manufacturing firm as London and export manager. Volunteering for the Army, he was commissioned in 1942, and held a staff appointment in the Middle East, with the rank of major. On demobilization he returned to his firm to become a resident director, and is also a member of a Blackburn firm of textile engineers.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northampton
CANDIDATE : Paget
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. T. Paget, K.C., is the elder son of Major T. Guy Paget, former Conservative M.P. for Market Bosworth. He graduated at Cambridge University and took an honours degree in law and economics. He was called to the Bar in 1934, took silk in 1947, and defended Field-Marshal von Manstein in the last of the German war trials. He joined the Labour Party in 1929, and was returned for Northampton in 1945.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham North West
CANDIDATE : Whalley
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. H. Whalley, a retail house furnisher in Nottingham, was born in 1894. President of Burwell Artisans’ Golf Club and member of Nottingham City and County clubs, he recently played in the English Amateur Golf Championship. He is a Methodist local preacher and Sunday school superintendent.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oxford
CANDIDATE : Pakenham
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lady Pakenham, born in 1906, is a grand-niece of the late Joseph Chamberlain, and a second cousin of the late Sir Austen Chamberlain and Mr. Neville Chamberlain. In 1935 she unsuccessfully contested Cheltenham. She married Lord Pakenham in 1931, and has eight children. She is actively interested in housing and adult education.
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