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 : Coatbridge and Airdrie

CANDIDATE : Mann

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Jean Mann was elected for Coatbridge in 1945. She has been closely associated with housing reform, and was housing convenor of Glasgow Corporation. | She is vice-president of the Scottish Housing and Town Planning Council and organizing secretary of the Town and Country Planning Association. She served on the housing advisory council set up by the Secretary of State. Aged 50, she has been senior magistrate of Glasgow.

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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 : Edinburgh East

CANDIDATE : Wheatley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Wheatley, K.C., the Lord Advocate, entered the House in 1947 when Mr. G. R. Thomson, then Lord Advocate, went to the Scottish Bench. First appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland, he became Lord Advocate a few months later. He was born in 1908, and is a nephew of the late Mr. John Wheatley. Minister of Health in the first Labour Government. Educated at St. Aloysius College, Glasgow, Mount St. Mary’s College, Chesterfield, and Glasgow University, he was called to the Scottish Bar, 1932, appointed an advocate-depute, 1945, and K.C., 1947.

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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 : Edinburgh West

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Morgan an insurance agent, aged 41, has been active in Co-operative and trade union circles for many years. He is chairman of East of Scotland Council of Co-operative Societies, and has been secretary of the West Lothian Divisional Labour Party and vice-chairman of West Lothian Trades Council.

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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 : Glasgow Gorbals

CANDIDATE : McGuinness

PARTY : Irish Anti-Partitionist

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McGuinness is a former vice-president and treasurer of the Labour Party in Gorbals, but left the Party in May last when the Ireland Act was passed. He stood for ” Ireland United and Scotland Free.”

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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 : Glasgow Pollok

CANDIDATE : Galbraith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. T. D. Galbraith, who was joint Under-Secretary for Scotland in 1945, was elected in 1940. Born in 1891, he was educated at Glasgow University and the R.N. Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, served in the 1914-18 war and at the R.N. Staff College, Greenwich, retiring in 1922. In the last war he was on the staff of the Scottish naval command. He is a partner in a Glasgow firm of accountants, and was a member of Glasgow Corporation for seven years?

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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 : Glasgow Tradeston

CANDIDATE : Hart

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Hart, an engineer’s agent in Glasgow, has long been associated with the Conservative Party and has held office in local associations of the Western divisional council of the Scottish Unionist Association. He has been a member of Glasgow Corporation for two years.

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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 : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : Curran

PARTY : Scot. Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Curran, another unsuccessful candidate in the by-election, is, at the age of 26, the youngest provost in Scotland. Most of his boyhood was spent in Northern Ontario, where his father was employed with a gold mining company. Returning to Alva at the age of 14, he became a member of the town council in 1945 and provost last year.

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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 : Ayr

CANDIDATE : Moore

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Thomas Moore was M.P. for the old Ayr Burghs seat from 1925 until the dissolution of the last Parliamant. He is chairman of Hatchards, Limited, and a director of other publishing companies. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he joined the Regular Army in 1908, served in France, Ireland, and Russia, retiring as a lieutenant-colonel in 1925. He is a freeman of the City of 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 : Berwickshire and East Lothian

CANDIDATE : Robertson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. J. Robertson was elected M.P. for Berwick and Haddington in 1945. He is 52 years of age and a native of the Shetland Islands. Joining the Royal Navy at the age of 16, he was in the Battle of Jutland and was the Navy’s middleweight boxing champion in 1918. During the war he was chief labour officer for Scotland for the Ministry of Supply, and in 1947 was appointed Joint Under-Secretary for Scotland.

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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 : Fife East

CANDIDATE : Stewart

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Henderson Stewart, member for East Fife since 1933, was born in 1897 and educated at Edinburgh University, where he took honours in economics. He was secretary of the Liberal Land Inquiry Committee in 1926-27. He has served on the advisory ccuncil on education in Scotland, and in 1949 was one of a group of M.P.s who toured North America to explore the market for agricultural machinery.

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