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 : Honiton

CANDIDATE : Drewe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Drewe was born in 1896 and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, serving in the Royal Artillery in the 1914-18 war. In 1924 he entered the House of Commons as member for South Molton but was defeated in 1929. He re-entered the House in 1931 as member for Honiton. He was an assistant whip in 1943 and in 1944 a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. In 1948 he was selected as Conservative deputy Chief Whip. He is a farmer.

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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 : Totnes

CANDIDATE : Widdicombe

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Widdicombe is a law tutor at Cambridge University and was born in 1924. He was educated at St. Albans School and Queen’s College, Cambridge. He is to be called to the Bar shortly, when he intends to practise as a barrister. He joined the Labour Party in 1942 and was secretary and chairman of the Cambridge University Labour Club. He is also a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers. He served with the Royal Armoured Corps during the last war.

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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 : Blaydon

CANDIDATE : Lawson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. F. Lawson, who is 41, is an active member of the Junior Imperial League. He is an accountant and is managing clerk for a firm of London and Newcastle auditors. In 1946 he became the only anti-Socialist member of the Stanley 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 : Durham North West

CANDIDATE : Quigley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Quigley, a South Shields business man, was born in 1913 and educated in Ireland and at Durham University. From 1932 onwards he worked as salesman, lorry-driver, and schoolteacher before starting in business as a greengrocer in order to maintain himself while studying. He is the proprietor of a large business with four shops in South Shields. A radio officer in the Merchant Navy in the war, he was wounded and discharged, later becoming a Home Office welfare officer.

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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 : Epping

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Lewis, aged 36, went to Malvern and University College, Oxford, where he took honours in Law. He was called to the Bar and practises as a barrister. He served with the Intelligence branch of the R.A.F. during the war.

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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 : Cirencester and Tewkesbury

CANDIDATE : Gillett

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. W. Gillett was born in 1899 and is a director of an industrial finishing firm in Gloucester, where he was born. He served in the R.A.F. during the war, and spent three and a half years in the Middle East. He is chairman of the Gloucester Liberal Association.

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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 : New Forest

CANDIDATE : Crosthwaite-Eyre

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. O. E. Crosthwaite-Eyre, chairman of printing and publishing companies, rose from the ranks to become a colonel in the Royal Marines during the war, and served on the staff for the invasion of Europe. Born in 1913, he was educated at Downside and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a verderer of the New Forest. One of his ancestors sat in Parliament in Elizabeth’s reign.

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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 : Barnet

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Jones, chairman and managing director of an export business, was born in 1887 and began as an office boy. He is a freeman of the City of London, on the committee of the London Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Institute of Export, and was a co-opted member of Barnet Council during the war.

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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 : Huntingdonshire

CANDIDATE : Renton

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David L. – M. Renton, a doctor’s son, was born at Dartford in 1908 and educated at Oundle and University College, Oxford, where he was president of the Liberal Club in 1930. He was called to the Bar in 1933, has practised in London and on the So?th-East Circuit, and was elected to the Bar Council in 1939. Commissioned in the Territorial Army in 1938, he served with the Royal Artillery in the Middle East, becoming a major in 1943. Later he was president of the British Military Court in Tripolitania. He was elected National Liberal M.P. for Huntingdonshire in 1945.

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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 : Faversham

CANDIDATE : Wells

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Percy Wells won the seat in the 1945 election. Aged 58, he left the Navy when 19 to visit America and the Empire, but returned to England in 1913 and became a supporter of the I.L.P., an organizer of the Workers’ Union, and a shop steward. Later he acted as agent for the Labour Party in the division. He has filled many offices in local government in Kent and served on the Central Agricultural Wages Board.

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