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 : Chertsey

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Owen was born at Addlestone in 1916 and is a depot inspector of the London Transport Executive. He joined the Liberal Party in 1946 and was chairman of Walton and Weybridge Liberal Association and of the Esher Division Liberal Executive Committee. He served in the Royal Artillery in India and Burma during the war and was with the counter intelligence section of the Control Commission in Germany in 1945 and 1946.

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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 : Guildford

CANDIDATE : Nugent

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, a poultry farmer, was born in 1907 and began life as a soldier in the Royal Artillery after attending the Royal Military Academy. He took up farming at Churt in 1928, moving to Dunsfold in 1935. Since 1942 he has been a member of the Surrey County Council, and is one of the four members of the Agricultural Improvements Council of Great Britain, an advisory body to the Ministry of Agriculture. He was chairman of the Guildford Division Conservative Association, 1945-47, and is a member of the Party’s S.E. Area Provincial 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 : Lewes

CANDIDATE : Briggs

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Briggs is 49 and a Londoner by birth. For some years a member of Brighton Town Council he was chairman of Brighton and Hove Labour Party, 1946-48, and is now vice-chairman. He is a member of Brighton and Lewes Hospital Management Committee.

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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 : Rugby

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Brown sat as Labour M.P. for West Wolverhampton in the 1929-31 Parliament, but afterwards left the Labour Party and was twice unsuccessful before he won Rugby at a by-election in 1942 as an?Independent candidate. Born in 1909, he entered the Civil Service. From 1919 to 1942 he was general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association, and since 1942 has been its Parliamentary general secretary. He is a broadcaster and writer on current affairs.

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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 : Chippenham

CANDIDATE : Eccles

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Eccles became M.P. for Chippenham in 1943 at a by-election, and has since been one of the more prominent Opposition back – bench speakers. Previously associated with the Central Mining Corporation in London and Johannesburg, he took over the Spain and Portugal departments of the Ministry of Economic Warfare on the outbreak of war. Later he negotiated a trade agreement in Madrid and became economic adviser to the British Ambassadors in Madrid and Lisbon before being transferred to the Ministry of Production. Born in 1904, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford.

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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 : Kidderminster

CANDIDATE : Tolley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L, Tolley, who was born in 1888, entered Parliament in 1945. An engineer, he was educated at an elementary school, and joined the Labour Party in 1917. Mayor of Kidderminster 1942-43, he has been 26 years a member of the town council, besides serving as president of the national savings, food control, and civil defence committees.

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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 : Richmond (Yorkshire)

CANDIDATE : Moore

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. E. Moore, aged 54, was educated at Doncaster, and is now a manufacturer and exporter of electro-plate. He speaks nine languages. An extra-mural lecturer of Sheffield, he lectured to troops before and after the war. He is secretary of Yorkshire Liberal Association and chairman of Yorkshire Liberal Candidates’ Association, and contested Somerby 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 : Don Valley

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Taylor, began work in the mines at the age of 14, and led a strike at Barnsley main colliery at the age of 21. A member of the Yorkshire District Committee of the Communist Party and chairman of the Barnsley branch, he was elected secretary of the Brierly (Ferry Moor) branch of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1942. He is 40.

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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 : Shipley

CANDIDATE : Hirst

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. N. Hirst was born in Leeds in 1904 and educated at Charterhouse and St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is chairman and managing director of a Leeds firm of chemical manufacturers. He serves on 19 national and local committees, including that of the Federation of British Industries. He was in the Army during the war and on the Administrative Staff of the 21st Army Group.

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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 : Cardiff North

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Captain D. A. Jones is an accountant with a long record of public work in South Wales and Monmouthshire.

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