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 : Hexham

CANDIDATE : Hancock

PARTY : Ind. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Alexander Hancock is 52 and?a Northamptonshire farmer who was formerly in business as a shoe manufacturer. In the 1945 General Election he opposed Mr. Winston Churchill in the new division of Woodford, and surprisingly polled over 10,000 votes as an Independent against Mr. Churchill’s 27,000. In his election address then he advocated one hour’s productive work a day for everybody —equal to a one-day working week with six days’ leisure—and the development of a ” philosophic community.”

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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 : Newark-on-Trent

CANDIDATE : Shephard

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Shephard, M.P. for Newark from 1943 to the dissolution, is chairman and managing director of a Nottingham firm manufacturing children’s clothes, and was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1941. He served with The Sherwood Foresterers from 1914 to 1919, was commissioned from the ranks, and won the M.C., and was an Army welfare officer from 1939 to 1946, as well as commanding the Newark Home Guard battalion.

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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 : Shrewsbury

CANDIDATE : Cant

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. B. Cant, an Oxford University staff tutor for adult education, aged 35, was educated at Middlesbrough High School and London School of Economics where he gained first class honours in economics and political science. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals ; and for the past two years has been chairman of the Burton divisional 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 : Weston-super-Mare

CANDIDATE : Orr-Ewing

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewing won Weston-super-Mare in a by-election in 1934, He has been Parliamentary private secretary to five Ministers and was a member of the Rhode-sian – Nyasaland Royal Commission. Born in 1893 and educated at Harrow and Oxford, he was A.D.C. to the General commanding the 20th Division in France, where he was wounded, in the 1914-18 war, and afterwards studied farming in West Cornwall.

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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 : Lichfield and Tamworth

CANDIDATE : Ward

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. S. A. Ward was born in Staffordshire in 1896 and is a member of a family which has been farming in the county for generations. She is the wife of a farmer, whom she helps on their farm at Walsall Wood, within the Lichfield constituency. She served from 1914 to 1918 as a V.A.D. nurse. She was M.P. for Cannock from 1931 to 1935. After the last war she was appointed to the staff of the Ministry of Labour and dealt with welfare in industry.

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