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 : Bermondsey

CANDIDATE : Talbot

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss B. E. Talbot did much work with Red Cross and refugee organizations in Belgium, Italy, Turkey, and Russia during and after the 1914-18 war. Later she campaigned energetically for improvements in the conditions of merchant seamen and to gain first-hand experience served before the mast in a ” windjammer.” Also promoted the cooperative cultivation of waste ground and organized sports camps for blind soldiers from St. Dunstan’s.

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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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Curthoys

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Curthoys, aged 42, is the chairman of the Chelsea Divisional Labour Party and a member of the borough council. He is a producer of documentary films, and during the war produced 400 film-strips for the War Office. He also directed the documentary film Great Adventure, which the National Film Association presented to the 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 : Greenwich

CANDIDATE : Dale

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. L. M. Dale, born in 1914, is a company director and a member of the council of Woolwich Chamber of Commerce. He served with the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy and won the D.S.O. at Anzio. As a Territorial officer he commands the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers.

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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 : Holborn and St Pancras South

CANDIDATE : Jeger

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. S. W. Jeger, a medical practitioner since 1923, won the seat for the Labour Party in 1945. He is 51, and has been a member of Shore-ditch Borough Council since 1926, being mayor in 1930. Elected to the L.C.C. in 1931, he was returned again in 1934 and 1937. In 1946 he Was a member of a Parliamentary delegation to Austria. He visited Spain twice during the civil war on medical aid work for the republicans.

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