CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bodmin
CANDIDATE : Royle
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. Royle, a horticulturist, born in 1921, is a member of Kingsbridge (Devon) Rural Council. He was a Labour agent in Plymouth in 1945, and is a member of the National Farmers’ Union and of the National Union of Agricultural Workers.
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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 : Whitehaven
CANDIDATE : Anderson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Anderson entered Parliament in 1935 for Whitehaven. He entered the railway service at the age of 17 and was an active member of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He I is a former chairman of the Manchester and District Council of the N.U.R. He took a prominent part in the ‘ early work of the Cumberland Development Council, and is a director of several industrial enterprises introduced into the area.
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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 : Derbyshire North East
CANDIDATE : White
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. White became member for the division in 1942 at an unopposed by-election. Now in the late fifties, he worked in the mines and has been for many years an official of the Derbyshire Miners’ Association. He is now Vice-president. He is a founder member of the North-East Derbyshire Labour Party, and before his election was agent to the former M.P.
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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 : Tavistock
CANDIDATE : Wyatt
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Col. H. D. Wyatt was educated at Marlborough and Dieppe Lycee, and entered the Army in 1914. Flis successive staff appointments included a liaison mission to the French Army, 1931-32. In the last war he was a staff officer at divisional H.Q., Malaya; with the 8th Armoured Division ; A.A.G., H.Q., 12th Corps ; colonel on the staff of Intelligence Division, War Office ; commander of North Hants District; and commander of Polish Group, S.W. Scotland. He retired in 1947.
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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 : Dorset South
CANDIDATE : Rawson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. T. R. Rawson, a Dorset school master, claims a strong Liberal ancestry. One of his forbears was guillotined as a Girondin in the French Revolution, and his grandfather was Gladstone’s private secretary. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was studying in Germany on the outbreak of the 1914-18 war and was interned as a civilian prisoner. He began teaching, which he continued in the United States, after the war. Back in England, he was for seven years secretary of the New Education Fellowship. He is now master of studies at a girls’ public school in Dorset. Mr. Rawson is a member of the Dorset Liberal 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 : Easington
CANDIDATE : Shinwell
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. Shinwell has?represented the Seaham division, now mostly included in Easington, since 1935, when he defeated Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. He had previously represented Linlithgow for two periods. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office in 1929-30, and Secretary for Mines in 1924 and again in 1930-31. As Minister of Fuel and Power at the beginning of the last Parliament he piloted the Bill nationalizing the coal mines through the Commons, and in 1947 he was appointed 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 : Billericay
CANDIDATE : Hayden
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. Hayden, aged 48, and the son of an Essex blacksmith, has been a builder and contractor in the district for 25 years. He is chairman of the Laindon Chamber of Commerce and of the Laindon Residents Protection Association.
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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 : Saffron Walden
CANDIDATE : Wilson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. S. Wilson has been mayor of Saffron Walden, where he was born, and is a member of the Essex County Council. Twice wounded in the 1914-18 war, he served again in France in 1940 and was one of the last to leave after the French surrender.
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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 : Gloucestershire West
CANDIDATE : Price
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. M. P. Price represented the Forest of Dean division from 1935 to the dissolution. He represented Whitehaven in the 1929-31 Parliament, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the President of the Board of Education. He was born in 1885 and was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where ?e graduated in natural science and agriculture. He is a journalist, author, and farmer, and is the son of a former M.P. for Tewkesbury.
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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 : Hereford
CANDIDATE : Thomas
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. P. L. Thomas, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, has represented Hereford since 1931. He was a member of the secretariat of Mr. Stanley Baldwin when Leader of the Opposition. For two years he was Financial Secretary to the Admiralty in the war-time Government, and a leading spokesman for the Opposition on naval questions in the last Parliament. Born in 1903, he was educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford.
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