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 : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Matthews

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. B. Matthews was presented at the Coronation Court in 1936, and then gave up society life and joined the Communist Party. Thirty-five years of age, she studied at the London School of Economics. After her marriage to Mr. G. Matthews, a former Labour candidate in Mid-Bedfordshire, she became an active Communist locally, and is now a member of the national executive of the 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 : Windsor

CANDIDATE : Mars

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. A. Mars, born in 1915, began his naval career at Dartmouth, first went to sea in 1932, and served in submarines during the war. When in command of the Unbroken he created a record by torpedoing two fast-moving enemy cruisers with one salvo. He passed the Naval Staff course and went to New Zealand as first lieutenant of the Navy’s training cruiser. Before returning to England he did three months’ service in Hongkong.

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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 : Wycombe

CANDIDATE : Leigh

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. Leigh is a journalist who became London secretary of the Tenants’ Defence League. She was secretary of the Amersham and Chesham Communist Party in 1944.

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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 : Macclesfield

CANDIDATE : Blackburn

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Blackburn, born in 1903 near Blackburn, and a teacher for 27 years, is languages master at North Manchester High School. For nine years he has served on Middleton (Lancashire) Town Council, and for four years has been chairman of the education committee. A former chairman of the Labour and Fabian Societies at Middleton, he has published books on local government reform.

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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 : Bodmin

CANDIDATE : Foot

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. John Foot, a Plymouth solicitor and a son of Mr. Isaac Foot, a former M.P. for Bodmin. He was born in 1909, and graduated in law at Oxford, where he was president of the Union in 1931. During the war, he served as a major with the Wessex Division. He has contested three elections.

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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 : Penrith and The Border

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. Taylor is a director of a Carlisle firm of manufacturing chemists, and a member of the Supervisory Staffs’, Executives’, and Technicians’ Union. He has been a Labour member of the Carlisle City Council since 1945, and is chairman of the Housing Management 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 : Ilkeston

CANDIDATE : MacPherson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. E. MacPherson, son of a former Labour member, began work as office boy with a Manchester textile firm. Afterwards he started in business in Nottingham and is now a director of three businesses, one of them a co-ownership firm. He is a member of the Society of Friends.

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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 : Tavistock

CANDIDATE : Munning

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. H. Munning is a bachelor, 54 years old, ?nd a farmer and social worker. He comes of an old Norfolk Liberal family and for 25 years was a Methodist local preacher. He has done much work for youth clubs and prison reform, and his interests include opera, choral singing, organ building, and drama.

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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 : Dorset South

CANDIDATE : Stacey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. N. Stacey, teacher and W.E.A. lecturer, is a former Liberal who joined the Socialists. A graduate of Bristol University, he is chairman of Southwick Rural District Council and has been active in the Fabian Society, the National Union of Teachers, and as a lay preacher. He is also an executive member of the south-west region of the United Nations 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 : Durham (City)

CANDIDATE : Laslett

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. H. C. R. Laslett, who retired from the Indian Army in 1947 after 20 years’ military service, is 43. A native of Riga, Latvia, he spent the first eight years of his life in Russia, where his father was in the timber trade. After leaving Fettes he worked with a London banking company, then enlisted in the Army and later went through Sandhurst, being commissioned in the Indian Army in 1931. During the last war he served with the 51st Highland Division, and was a prisoner of war for five years. He is the northern counties representative on the Conservative central board of finance.

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