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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Curthoys

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Curthoys, aged 42, is the chairman of the Chelsea Divisional Labour Party and a member of the borough council. He is a producer of documentary films, and during the war produced 400 film-strips for the War Office. He also directed the documentary film Great Adventure, which the National Film Association presented to the 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 : Greenwich

CANDIDATE : Dale

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. L. M. Dale, born in 1914, is a company director and a member of the council of Woolwich Chamber of Commerce. He served with the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy and won the D.S.O. at Anzio. As a Territorial officer he commands the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers.

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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 : Holborn and St Pancras South

CANDIDATE : Jeger

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. S. W. Jeger, a medical practitioner since 1923, won the seat for the Labour Party in 1945. He is 51, and has been a member of Shore-ditch Borough Council since 1926, being mayor in 1930. Elected to the L.C.C. in 1931, he was returned again in 1934 and 1937. In 1946 he Was a member of a Parliamentary delegation to Austria. He visited Spain twice during the civil war on medical aid work for the republicans.

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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 : Kensington North

CANDIDATE : Eyre

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Eyre was born in 1918 and educated at Marlborough. He is a journalist and is working with a firm of publishers. During the war he became a major in the Psychological Warfare Division in the Far East and was responsible for publishing four local vernacular newspapers and a Forces’ newspaper. In East Java he ran a one-man radio station built by the local population with army aid from Japanese wreckage.

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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 : Lewisham North

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. G. Smith was born in Southwark in 1923, and educated at an elementary school. He passed the Army apprentice examination at 14, and after four years’ technical training went to France with the Royal Corps of Signals and served with the Special Branch. Invalided out in 1945, he became a member of the control room staff of a cable company. He is a branch executive member of the Association of Scientific Workers.

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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 : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Key

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Key, who was appointed Minister of Works in 1947 was formerly a schoolmaster. He is one of the pioneers of the Labour movement in East London, and followed Mr. George Lansbury as member for Bow and Bromley in 1940. He was on the Poplar Council for 30 years, and mayor of the borough three times. In the war he became a Civil Defence Commissioner for London, after being chairman of Poplar Civil Defence Committee. His other public work included chairmanship of the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee.

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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 : Southwark

CANDIDATE : Fowler

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Fowler, born in 1901, and educated at King’s College, London, was trained as an engineer. Entering journalism, he start?d a magazine for private traders and became general director of the Council of Retail Distributors. He has travelled extensively in Europe and Canada.

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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 : Wandsworth Clapham

CANDIDATE : Curtis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Beatrice Curtis was a lecturer at King’s College, London, until her marriage. She joined the Liberal Party during the General Election campaign of 1945 and was first chairman of the Balham and Tooting Liberal Association. She was prospective candidate for Balham and Tooting until the redistribution, and was then adopted for the Clapham division. She was born in 1903.

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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 : Accrington

CANDIDATE : Hynd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Hynd was member for Central Hackney (now absorbed in South Hackney) in the last Parliament, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, and later to the Minister of Defence. Born in 1900 in Perth, he attended Perth Academy and, after working as a railway clerk, became a branch secretary of the Railway Clerks’ Association and later a member of the headquarters staff. He has served as councillor and alderman of Hornsey.

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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 : Barnsley

CANDIDATE : Spencer

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. G. Spencer, a former National Coal Board official and advertising consultant, has held several commercial appointments in the United States and Canada, as well as in this country. Born in London, he was educated at London Uniyersity, and served in both world wars. His wife contested Nuneaton as a Conservative.

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