CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rother Valley
CANDIDATE : Breare
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. R. A. Breare, 35, is the manager of a West Riding group of newspapers. During the war he served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He is honorary treasurer of the Harrogate and District General Hospital.
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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 : Cardiff North
CANDIDATE : Howlett
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. Howlett is national organizer of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers for South Wales and the West of England. Aged 51, he has been a member of the union for 21 years and of the Labour Party since 1917. He has been active in local government since 1923, and holds appointments in the gas and electricity industries.
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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 : Rhondda East
CANDIDATE : Davies
PARTY : Welsh Nat.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. Davies graduated with first-class honours at Cardiff University in 1922, and is Welsh master at Tonypandy Grammar School. He was born in 1897. He is a lecturer on Welsh, religious and social subjects, a member of New Wales Union, and a pioneer of the Welsh Nationalist Party.
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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 : Caernarvon
CANDIDATE : Williams
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. W. Williams is 37, and was at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute in London. From 1930 to 1934 he was in the research department at Woolwich Arsenal, and then he joined his father in the management of the Glaslyn Foundry, of which he is managing director. He is a member of the Portmadoc Urban Council and chairman of the Festiniog Group Committee, which administers local gas undertakings under the Wales Gas Board.
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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 : Denbigh
CANDIDATE : Hughes
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. G. Hughes, son of a retired police-sergeant, graduated with honours in the Law School of the University College of Wales in 1946. He then spent two years in the legal department of the Government of Southern Rhodesia and is preparing for his final Bar examination. He was born in 1924.
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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 : Caerphilly
CANDIDATE : Edwards
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Ness Edwards, member for the division since 1939, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in the last Government. Born in 1897, he was educated at an elementary school and at the London Labour College. He was a colliery boy at 13, and became miners’ secretary in 1927 and miners’ agent in 1932. He organized the escape of Sudeten miners from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after Munich, and was on the Parliamentary delegation to Buchenwald camp 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 : Merionethshire
CANDIDATE : Parry
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. O. Parry was born at Bethel, Caernarvonshire, and educated at University College, Bangor. He was at one time North Wales Regional Officer of the National Council of Social Service, and is a former education officer and programme director of the B.B.C, Welsh Regio?. He is chairman of the Merioneth Service of Youth and Further Education Committee.
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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 : Montgomeryshire
CANDIDATE : Williams
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. D. Williams contested the Wrexham division as a Literal in 1945. Later he joined the Labour Party. Born in 1895, he became a sales executive officer and then a farmer, and has been a member of the Merioneth County 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 : Dundee West
CANDIDATE : Strachey
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. J. St. L. Strachey, Minister of Food, in the last government, was born at Guild-ford in 1901 and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. A Conservative when he went to Oxford, he joined the Labour Party in 1924 and fought Aston (Birmingham), which seat he won in 1929. In 1931, with Sir Oswald Mosley, he resigned from the Labour Party, but later denounced Mosley’s Fascist tendencies. He joined the R.A.F. in 1941, gave broadcasts on the air war, and left the Service as a wing commander. Elected junior M.P. for Dundee in 1945, he became Undersecretary at the Air Ministry, and succeeded Sir Ben Smith as Minister of Food in 1946.
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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 : Edinburgh North
CANDIDATE : Clyde
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. L. Clyde, K.C., contested Peebles and Midlothian at the last General Election. Aped 51, he is a son of the late Lord Clyde, a distinguished Scottish judge who was North Edinburgh’s first M.P. when the division was created early in the century. Mr. Clyde became a King’s Counsel in 1936, and during the war was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to report on the allocation of Government contracts in Scotland.
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