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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Windsor Constituency – Biography of Mott-Radclyffe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Windsor Constituency – Biography of Mott-Radclyffe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Windsor

    CANDIDATE : Mott-Radclyffe

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. E. Mott-Radclyffe became M.P. for Windsor at a by-election in 1945, has been a Conservative Whip, and is joint secretary of the Conservative Party Foreign Affairs Committee. An alternative delegate to the Council of Europe, he took part in the conference at Strasbourg on social security. Born in 1911 and educated at Eton and Oxford, he was for a time in the diplomatic service, and during the war, in which he served with The Rifle Brigade, he was on the staff in Greece and Syria.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wycombe Constituency – Biography of Astor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wycombe Constituency – Biography of Astor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wycombe

    CANDIDATE : Astor

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. W. Astor won East Fulham in 1935 and represented the constituency in Parliament until 1945. The eldest son of Viscount Astor, he was born in 1907, and on leaving Oxford travelled in the Far East for the Institute of Pacific Relations, worked with the Pilgrim Trust, and was secretary to Lord Lytton when the commission of inquiry on Manchuria visited China. He joined the R.N.V.R.. in 1938 and served in the Middle East. He is keenly interested in agriculture, and farms in Buckinghamshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Knutsford Constituency – Biography of Maitland

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Knutsford Constituency – Biography of Maitland

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Knutsford

    CANDIDATE : Maitland

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. L. Maitland, a bachelor aged 41, is an engineer who lives in Scotland. He is a director of a firm with offices in Glasgow and London. He was educated at Ackworth School and Sheffield University. He served on the Liberal Party’s Reconstruction Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Banks

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Banks

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wirral

    CANDIDATE : Banks

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. M. Banks was born in 1915, went to Geneva as university delegate for research at the I.L.O., and, returning to Cambridge, read international law. Called to the Bar in 1936, he practised on the Northern Circuit and at the Central Criminal Court. He served over five yc;ars in the Army, and is a former chairman of Hoylake Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penrith and The Border Constituency – Biography of Scott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penrith and The Border Constituency – Biography of Scott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Penrith and The Border

    CANDIDATE : Scott

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. D. Scott is a B.A. in Agriculture of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a farmer. Born in 1901, he was M.P. for the Wansbeck division of Northumberland from 1940 to 1945, and for a time was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and chairman of the advisory committee on hill farming. For 10 years he was a member of the Rothbury Rural District Council, and has been chairman of his local branch of the National Farmers’ Union.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ilkeston Constituency – Biography of Evans

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ilkeston Constituency – Biography of Evans

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ilkeston

    CANDIDATE : Evans

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. F. R. Evans, born in 1920, worked with a firm of flour millers in Swansea before taking a commission in The Welch Regiment during the war. He was seconded for flying duties with the R.A.F. and served in Germany with an Army Cooperation squadron. He is a branch manager of a motor finance company.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Devon North Constituency – Biography of Baker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Devon North Constituency – Biography of Baker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Devon North

    CANDIDATE : Baker

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. W. A. Baker is a schoolmaster. :Since he left the Army in 1947, after 23 years’ seryice, he has been active in trade union and political circles in Hampshire, particularly in the National Union of Teachers and the Portsmouth Labour Party. He has also done a good deal of social work in the district.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset North Constituency – Biography of Griffith

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset North Constituency – Biography of Griffith

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset North

    CANDIDATE : Griffith

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Griffith, aged 35, is a solicitor practising in Weymouth, and before going into practice on his own he was employed as assistant solicitor by the Dorset County Council. He studied at the University of Wales and has been a member of Weymouth Town Council for several years. He has held a number of local government appointments in England and Wales.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Consett Constituency – Biography of Dees

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Consett Constituency – Biography of Dees

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Consett

    CANDIDATE : Dees

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. Dees, aged 34, went to Manchester grammar schools and Manchester University, where he gained an honours degree in history. He has been a tutor for King’s College extramural department and lectured in Germany for the Foreign Office.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Ely Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Ely Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Ely

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. G. Jones, a 27-year-old Welshman, is reading for his final law examination at Cambridge and the Middle Temple. He served as a wireless operator-air gunner in the war and was president of Cambridge University Liberal Club in 1949.

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