CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Park
CANDIDATE : Fullard
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. Fullard, who joined the Communist Party in 1939, was formerly a miner, and served during the war in the infantry and the Tank Corps, in India and the Far East.
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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 : Southend West
CANDIDATE : Channon
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Channon was elected for Southend in 1935, when he succeeded Lady Iveagh, his mother-in-law. From 1938 to 1941 he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. R. A. Butler when Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and during the war went abroad on several missions. A director of a brewing firm, he is aged 50.
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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 : Stockport South
CANDIDATE : Gridley
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir Arnold Gridley, born in 1878, has represented Stockport since 1935. Manager of an electric lighting and tramways company at the age of 22, he has a wide experience in electricity supply and was electricity controller for the Ministry of Munitions in 1916. He is chairman of a group of electricity manufacturing and other companies. He was President of the British Association of Chambers of Commerce, 1946-48.
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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 : Sunderland North
CANDIDATE : Willey
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. T. Wil?ey, elected for Sunderland in 1945, was born in 1910, educated at Cambridge, called to the Bar in 1936, and was for a time a barrister on the Northern Circuit. During the war he served with the A.F.S. in East London, and was London regional officer of the Fire Brigades Union. He became Parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary in 1946. He is a director of the North East Trading Estates, Limited.
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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 : Tottenham
CANDIDATE : Messer
PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Messer was born in 1886, and by trade is a french polisher. He is a member of the Middlesex County Council, of which he was chairman in 1947-48; chairman of the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, and of the Central Health Services Council; and also chairman of the Ministry of Labour Advisory Committee on handicapped children. Entering Parliament in 1929 as M.P. for South Tottenham, he was defeated in 1931, but regained the constituency in 1935.
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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 : Wallsend
CANDIDATE : McKay
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. McKay, who represented the division in the last Parliament, worked in the pits from the age of 12. He was sent by the Northumberland miners to Ruskin College, Oxford, and on returning to the mines became a checkweighman and a member of the executive committee of the Northumberland Miners’ Union. He served for a time on the Newcastle City 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 : Watford
CANDIDATE : Freeman
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Freeman, who was appointed in 1947 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, captured Watford from the Conservatives at the 1945 election. Born in 1915, he was educated at Westminster School, and Brasenose College, Oxford, and until 1940 was an advertising consultant. He saw much active service during the last war. Soon after entering Parliament he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for War. Subsequently he was Under-Secretary of State for War.
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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 : West Ham North
CANDIDATE : Prior
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Cmdr. R. M. Prior, who was member for the Aston division of Birmingham from 1943 to 1945, is a company director. Born in 1893, and educated at Osborne and Dartmouth, he served in the Navy in destroyers and submarines in the 1914-18 war. He left the Navy in 1919, but rejo?ned in 1939 and commanded a fleet of drifters that saved 10,000 men at Dunkirk. He took part in commando raids in Norway and at Dieppe, where he was captured by the Germans. He escaped and joined up with the Maquis in France, but after many wanderings he managed to cross into Spain and finally reached Gibraltar. His services gained him the D.S.O. He was a beach master in Normandy on D-day and later opened the port of Antwerp for the allies.
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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 : Willesden West
CANDIDATE : Ahluwalia
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
The Sirdar K. S. B. Ahluwalia, who is 46, is a Sikh, and a relat:ve of the Maharaja of Kapurthala. He served in the British merchant marine, and, being on the officers’ reserve, was called up in 1940, and was responsible for the welfare of allied seamen in Indian ports. Returning to England after the war, he formed trading, steamship, and air charter companies, and joined the Liberal Party last year.
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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 : Wood Green
CANDIDATE : McEwen
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. D. McEwen was born in Devon in December, 1895. He is on the staff of the Conservative Central Office. From 1914 to 1921 he was in the Royal Field Artillery transferring to the Royal Flying Corps and retiringw ith the rank of captain. In 1939 he joined the administrative branch of the R.A.F. Between the wars he worked for an advertising firm, and later represented a Yorkshire textile group.
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