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 : Brighouse and Spenborough

CANDIDATE : Woolley

PARTY : Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. E. Woolley, who was born in 1901, was National Liberal M.P. for Spen Valley. 1940-45, being defeated at the last election. A native of Blackburn, he is 49, and joint managing director of a firm of manufacturing chemists. In the war, he was on the headquarters staff of South-Eastern Command and later Western Command, reaching the rank of major. He has held many offices in Methodism.

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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 : Bristol South

CANDIDATE : Wilkins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Wilkins, formerly a linotype operator in a Bristol newspaper office, was born in 1899. He joined the Labour Party in 1922 and was for 10 years a member of Bristol City Council. Elected for South Bristol in 1945, he became an assistant Government Whip two years later and was afterwards appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. During the wan as a stoker in the Royal Navy, he served on Q-ships submarine-hunting off the Irish coast.

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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 : Burnley

CANDIDATE : Carradice

PARTY : I.L.P.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Carradice, 64 years of age, has been district organizer for the Independent Labour Party in Lancashire and Cheshire since 1946, after having been organizer in Glasgow for three years. He was previously a branch secretary of the General and Municipal Workers’ Union.

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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 : Chesterfield

CANDIDATE : Barker

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Barker, a machine worker, a shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union, fu ^airman of a works committee, lived in tne Soviet Union for two years and has been secretary of the Sheffield Communist 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 : Croydon East

CANDIDATE : Gray

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Gray, a Southern Counties representative of a Yorkshire textile firm, has been an active worker in the Liberal cause in Surrey for many years. He represents Whyteleafe on the Caterham and Warlinsrfiam Urban 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 : Dartford

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Roberts, aged 24, attended Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, where she won a bursary to Somerville College, Oxford. She took an honours degree and was awarded a B.Sc. (Research) degree. She was engaged on research work at Colchester. While at Oxford she became president of the University Conservative Association—the third woman to hold that office.

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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 : Dudley

CANDIDATE : Wigg

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. E. C. Wigg, who won Dudley for the Labour Party in 1945, as Parliamentary private secretary accompanied Mr. Shin well, Secretary of State for War, on his visits to British troops abroad. Born in 1900, he joined the Tank Corps when 19 and served for 23 years in Turkey, India, Iraq, the Sudan, and West Africa. Discharged in 1937, he rejoined in 1940, and worked for better welfare and education in the Army. He is one of the joint authors of ” Keeping Left.”

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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 : East Ham South

CANDIDATE : Young

PARTY : Soc. Party of Great Britain

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Young, a science teacher, was born in 1901 and has been a meniber of the N.U.T. A member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain for 12 years, he has been on the party executive and was once central organizer. He is one of the party’s two candidates.

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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 : Eton and Slough

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Smith, aged 35, is a Cambridge M.A. with an honours degree in mathematics and English literature. He took up teaching for a time, but subsequently joined the staff of the International Peace Campaign. He is now a scientific worker with a Slough firm. For the past seven years has been a moving spirit in the Communist Party in Slough.

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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 : Gosport and Fareham

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. F. B. Bennett was born in 1911 and was educated at Winchester and Oxford and St. George’s Hospital, London. He served in the war as surgeon lieutenant – commander, and was twice torpedoed, and later became a doctor in the Fleet Air Arm and served in Tanganyika and Ceylon. A well-known yachtsman, he was for two seasons helmsman of Shamrock V, and in 1949 he was a member of the British team which competed for the British-America Cup.

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