CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stepney
CANDIDATE : Maynard
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. H. Maynard is descended from French Huguenots who came to Stepney 400 years ago. He is in business as a maker of ships’ blocks, and became a member of the Stepney Borough Council in 1912.
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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 : Wandsworth Streatham
CANDIDATE : Benenson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. Benenson, born in 1921, was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and is a barrister on the South-Eastern Circuit. During the war he served in the Intelligence Corps. He has founded a number of ” poor persons’ lawyer ” centres, and runs one in Bethnal Green, where he lives and is an alderman on the borough 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 : Acton
CANDIDATE : Papworth
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. F. Papworth is a bus conductor, ged 51. His foster-father was Mr. Tom Brooks, a workmate and close friend of Mr. John Burns, the Socialist pioneer. He was a founder of the Discharged Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Federation, which later merged into th? British Legion. He has been a member of the executive of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and of the T.U.C. General Council, and an official representative at International Labour Office conferences. He sits on various Government committees.
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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 : Bath
CANDIDATE : Pitman
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. I. J. Pitman, who became M.P. for the division in 1945, is a grandson of the late Sir Isaac Pitman, and chairman and joint managing director of the Pitman Press. He was a director of the Bank of England up to the time of its nationalization, and for two years previous to 1945, he was director of organization and methods at the Treasury. Born in 1901, and educated at Eton and Oxford, he excelled in athletics, gaining his blue at Oxford in rugby, playing for England against Scotland, and winning the Public Schools middle-weight boxing championship in 1919.
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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 : Bilston
CANDIDATE : Godrich
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Godrich, born in 1915, became works manager of a wire and steel firm in 1937, and in 1942 a director. In 1944 he set up as a consulting engineer in Birmingham. Has been active in ybuth club and church council work and is a licensed lay reader.
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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 : Birmingham Hall Green
CANDIDATE : Roy
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. L. Roy, born in Canada, and 37 years of age, was a sheet metal worker up to the age of 20, and then became an insurance agent. For several years he was an air raid warden in Birmingham, and afterwards joined the R.A.M.C. and served in West Africa.
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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 : Birmingham Small Heath
CANDIDATE : Longden
PARTY : Co-op, and Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Longden, who is a native of Ashton-under-Lyne, is aged 58. At Ruskin College he earned a diploma with distinction in economics and political science. He engaged in propaganda on behalf of the I.L.P. and the Co-operative movement. He was first returned to Parliament for the Deritend division in 1929, was defeated in 1931, and recaptured the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. He is an iron-moulder.
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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 : Blackburn West
CANDIDATE : Assheton
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Ralph Assheton, aged 49, comes from a family which has owned land in Lancashire and elsewhere since the Middle Ages. An ancestor, Sir John De Assheton, was summoned to Parliament in 1323. Mr. Assheton was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1925. He was elected for Rushcliffe in 1934, and in 1940 became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. In 1942 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, and in 1943 Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Before the 1945 General Election, in which he lost his seat, he was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party. He re-entered Parliament in 1945 for the City of London, a seat which has now been abolished.
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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 : Bootle
CANDIDATE : Hill
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. Hill, an architect and chartered surveyor, was born in 1894 and has lived all his life on Merseyside. During the 1914-18 war he served in France with The Welch Regiment and the Royal Engineers. Chairman of several local building societies he is regarded as an authority on housing.
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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 : Bradford North
CANDIDATE : Nichol
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. Muriel E. Nichol, who was born in 1893, is a daughter of the late R. C. Wallhead, lormer I.L.P. member. A teacher before her marriage, she is the wife of a schoolmaster, and vice-chairman of Welwyn Garden City Urban Council. She has served on Parliamentary delegations to India and Norway, and was a member of the Curtis Committee. She was elected for North Bradford in 1945. Mrs. Nichol is also active in the Co-operative movement.
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