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 : Durham North West

CANDIDATE : Murray

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Murray, who was born in 1887, began work in a Durham pit at 13 and was hewing coal at 16. He is a member of a family of 12 brought up in a miner’s three-roomed cottage. Later a colliery checkweighman, he was elected M.P. for the former Spennymoor Division in 1942. A member of the Labour Party since 1907, he has been a county councillor for 17 years and is chairman of the mines group of the Parliamentary 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 : Epping

CANDIDATE : Manning

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Leah Manning first entered Parliament in 1931 as member for East Islington, and won Epping in the 1945 election. Born in Illinois, she was educated at St. John’s School, Bridg-water, and at Homerton College, Cambridge, and became head mistress of the Open-Air School at Cambridge. She is a past president of the National Union of Teachers, of which she has also been organizing secretary.

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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 : Bennett

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. M. Bennett, who is aged 45, has been a member of the Labour Party for over 20 years. He is a horticulturist and vice-chairman of the British Socialist Agricultural Society. He is a lay preacher.

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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 : Basingstoke

CANDIDATE : Clark

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. Clark was educated at Croydon High School for Girls, studied music, and took her L.R.A.M. After a period as a farmer on the Dorset and Devon border she joined the Women’s Timber Corps in 1941 and became forewoman at a Ministry of Supply mills. She is an enthusiastic gardener and horsewoman.

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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 : Taylor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. S. J. L. Taylor won the new division in 1945, and has been Mr. Herbert Morrison’s Parliamentary private secretary. A well-known sociologist and psychiatrist, he was the wartime head of the Ministry of Information’s home intelligence department and director of the war-time social survey. He is 39, was educated at Stowe, and studied at St. Thomas’s Hospital and London University.

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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 : Hertfordshire South West

CANDIDATE : Middleton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. C. Middleton, a London stockbroker, aged 54, is vice-chairman of St. Albans Liberal Association. Since the age of 17 he has been a Methodist lay preacher.

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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 : Dover

CANDIDATE : Goldstone

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. E. Goldstone contested the Peters-field division of Hampshire unsuccessfully in 1945. Born in 1909, he is a seaside hotel proprietor, served with the R.A.F. during the war, and is chairman of the East Kent and Isle of Thanet Liberal Associations.

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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 : Orpington

CANDIDATE : Smithers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Waldron Smithers, born in 1880, has represented Chisle-hurst (and later Orpington) for 25 years. Since 1900 he has been organist at Knockholt parish church, and he was in former years a prominent cricketer. He is a non-practising member of the Stock Exchange, and a governor of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

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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 : Darwen

CANDIDATE : Prescott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Stanley Prescott won Darwen at a by-election in 1943, when he had a majority of 70, and held it in 1945. A member of the Parliamentary Mission to Japan in 1947, he warned the cotton trade on his return of the danger of Japanese competition. Aged 38, and educated at Cambridge, he practised at the Bar until 1939, then served in the war, and has since directed a factory in London.

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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 : Lancaster

CANDIDATE : Farrer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. V. A. Farrer unsuccessfully contested this seat in 1945. Aged 53, and works manager for a London engineering firm, he has been prominent in left-wing politics for more than 30 years. He founded the Padding-ton branch of the I.L.P., but later became secretary of the Paddington Trades Council and Labour Party.

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