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 : Billericay

CANDIDATE : Braine

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Braine, born in 1914, is a former vice-chairman of the Junior Imperial League and from 1938 to 1945 was on the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. He enlisted as a private in 1940; was commissioned in the North Staffordshire Regiment ; graduated from the Staff College, Camberley, and was appointed to the staff of Lord Mountbatten. He is a lecturer and broadcaster.

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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 : Maldon

CANDIDATE : Abernethy

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. D. Abernethy was a school master before the war, and has since toured the country lecturing on visual aids to education. During the war he served in Ceylon and India, holding staff appointments. He is a native of Essex and 36 years of age.

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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 : Stroud and Thornbury

CANDIDATE : Parkin

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. T. Parkin was returned to Parliament in 1945 as the first Labour M.P. for the Stroud division He went to Lincoln College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at Strasbourg, and up to 1945 was a teacher at Wycliffe College. During the war he served in the R.A.F. and left with the rank of flight-lieutenant. He is chairman of the trade and industry group of 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 : Winchester

CANDIDATE : Smithers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. H. B. Smithers, a barrister of 37, educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained first – class honours, is a lieutenant-commander in the London Division, R.N.V.R. During the war he was assistant Naval Attache at the British Embassy in Washington ; an acting Naval Attache in Mexico. He has been a member of the Winchester R.D.C.

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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 : Hertford

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Hughes, a Norfolk man born in 1913, took an honours degree at Oxford. An accountant in London, he was?a Royal Artillery officer during the war and won an American decoration. He was elected to Herts County Council in 1948.

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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 : Canterbury

CANDIDATE : White

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Baker White has represented Canterbury since 1945. Born in 1902, he worked as a farm labourer and circus hand in the early twenties, and later became a horticulturist and author. During 1935-38 he was engaged on secret service in Germany, escaping across the frontier from the Gestapo in 1938. He served afterwards in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office and accompanied a political mission to the Middle East.

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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 : Gravesend

CANDIDATE : Acland

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Richard Acland was Liberal member for Barnstaple from 1935 to 1945. One of the founders of the Common Wealth Party, he stood as their candidate at Putney in 1945 but was defeated, and later joined the Labour Party and won the by-election at Graves-end in 1947. Born in 1906 into a well-known west country Liberal family, he was educated at Rugby and Oxford.

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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 : Tonbridge

CANDIDATE : Clapham

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. R. Clapham practised as a solicitor after being seven years on the staff of the Kent County Council. He had previously been called to the Bar, and in 1949, at his own request, he was struck off the roll of solicitors and applied for readmittance to the Bar. He has studied social conditions in eight countries.

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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 : Heywood and Royton

CANDIDATE : Hurley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. Hurley, an Irishman, born in 1896, has spent most of his life in Hull, where he became chairman of the Hull Labour Party and a member of the executive of the Yorkshire Regional Council of the Labour Party. He served for 13 years on the city council. He is an electrical engineer.

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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 : Morecambe and Lonsdale

CANDIDATE : Gaskell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

M?. A. Gaskell, aged 50, is rural industries organizer for the north-west. He was secretary to the Liberal Party in Ramsbottom, Lancashire, where he lives, but in 1922 he joined the Labour Party, and was for a time secretary of the Heywood and Radcliffe divisional party. From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the Lancashire County Council, and is a member and former chairman of the Ramsbottom Urban Council, resigning in 1940.

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