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 : Merton and Morden

CANDIDATE : Ryder

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. R. E. D. Ryder, R.N., V.C, was born in 1908 and was educated at Cheltenham College. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1925, and was awarded the King’s Dirk while serving in the cadet training ship H.M.S. Erebus. He was promoted commander in December, 1940, and captain in June, 1948, and commanded the research vessel Penola on the Rymill Expedition to the Antarctic. He was naval liaison officer on the staff of Field-Marshal Alexander at the headquarters of Southern Command. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for the part he played while in command of the naval forces in the St. Nazaire raid in 1943, and was three times mentioned in dispatches. Since the war he has been British Naval Attache at Oslo.

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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 : Newcastle-under-Lyme

CANDIDATE : Friend

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. A. Friend is a Regular Army officer who was commissioned in 1936 after education at Harrow and Sandhurst, and retired in 1947. He served with the 7th Armoured Division in the Middle East and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was a liaison officer through the Battles of Alamein and of the Western Desert, and was later posted as chief armoured car instructor at Sandhurst. In 1944 he took part in the liberation of Europe, and in 1945 was with the Allied Military Government of Hanover.

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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 : Norwich North

CANDIDATE : Paton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Paton was born in Aberdeen in 1886 and is a journalist. In 1945 he won one of the two Norwich seats from the Conservatives with a majority of 7,328. He is a member of Herts County Council and was on the defunct Barnet Board of Guardians and Welwyn Garden City Council. His wife, Mrs. Florence Paton, was also a Labour M.P. in the last Parliament but was unsuccessful at Carlton (Notts) in this election.

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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 : Nottingham South

CANDIDATE : Rees-Davies

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, born in 1916, was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he was a prominent cricketer. He was called to the Bar in 1939, and is a practising barrister. Commissioned in the?Welsh Guards at the outbreak of the late war, he served later, on the staff of Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, with the Guards Armoured Division. He lost his right arm while on service.

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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 : Plymouth Devonport

CANDIDATE : Foot

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Michael Foot, born in 1913, a son of Mr. Isaac Foot, was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Wadham College, Oxford (exhibitioner). In 1933 he was president of the Oxford Union and . toured the United States as the representative of the Union. A member of the Labour Party executive, he is a journalist, and is the author of several political books.

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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 : Portsmouth West

CANDIDATE : Clarke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. T. H. Clarke was born in India in 1904, and was educated at Haileybury and Sandhurst. In the 1939 war he served at Narvik and in North Africa, France and Germany, and was three times mentioned in dispatches and became Deputy Director of Ordnance Services. He has boxed for the Army as a heavyweight and has played rugby for the Harlequins and the Army.

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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 : Reading South

CANDIDATE : Mikardo

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Mikardo, who won Reading in 1945, frequently took an independent line in Parliament, sometimes to the extent of voting against the Government. He was born at Portsmouth in 1908 and engaged in teaching journalism and translation work before specializing in commercial and industrial problems and becoming an industrial consultant. He is hon. treasurer of the Fabian Society and on the executive of the Association of Supervisory Staffs and Engineering Technicians.

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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 : Rotherham

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Jack Jones, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply in the last Government, was for 32 years a steel smelter at Manchester. Born in 1894, and educated at an elementary school and Bangor University, he has been a prominent member of the Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Federation, holding many offices locally and being a member of the executive. He was a local councillor for 14 years, and in the last Parliament sat for Bolton.

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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 : Salford West

CANDIDATE : Bell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Bell was born in 1898 on the family estate near Wigan, where he still farms 300 acres. He is managing director of Ashley Investment Trust, Manchester, and a director of other companies. Until last year he was a member of Lancashire County Council. He is a member of the Conservative Party national executive, and of the regional council of the Federation of British Industries.

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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 : Sheffield Neepsend

CANDIDATE : Morris

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. H. Morris was born in Sheffield in 1893, practised as a solicitor until 1936, when he was called to the Bar. He served on Sheffield City Council, 1920-27 and 1929-37. Enlisted in the ranks in the 1914-18 war and retired as captain; he rejoined in the last war, again in the ranks, and retired with the rank of colonel. Colonel Morris, who played football until he was 40, won Central Sheffield for Labour in 1945.

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