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 : Swansea East

CANDIDATE : Mort

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. L. Mort was born in 1888, educated at an elementary school, and has been a steel-worker. He has been a member of Neath Borough Council and has held all the local offices in the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. He was first elected for Swansea East in 1940, and was at one time Parliamentary private sacretary to Lord (then Sir William) Jowitt.

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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 : Conway

CANDIDATE : Hodson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. E. Hodson, who is 25, is a member of an old North Wales agricultural family. He attended the Ford Agricultural Institute, Chelmsford, the University College of Wales, and Gray’s Inn, London. In 1948 he graduated with honours in law from the University of Wales and was called to the Bar in 1949. He served in the Royal Navy during the war.

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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 : Flintshire East

CANDIDATE : White

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. White, unsuccessful in her contest in Flintshire in 1945, was born in 1909, a daughter of Dr. Tom Jones, a deputy secretary of the Cabinet in the days of Mr. Lloyd-George. She was formerly in the Civil Service?and later a political journalist. She is on the national executive of the Labour Party, a governor of the British Film Institute, and a member of the Bo; Trade Films 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 : Neath

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. J. Williams, 53, secretary of the Welsh Parliamentary Group in the last Parliament, began work in the mines at the age of 13, and won a Miners’ Federation scholarship to the Labour College. A further scholarship took him to Ruskin College, Oxford, and in 1924 he became a lecturer at the Labour College in Scotland. Returning to Wales in 1931, he became a checkweighman, secretary of the miners’ lodge, and member of the executive of the South Wales Miners’ Federation. He is an ex-chairman of Pontardawe 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 : Abertillery

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. O. J. Lewis, a farmer, who comes of a’Baptist and Liberal family, was born in 1913, and had a grammar school education. He is a member of Abergavenny U.D.C. A founder of Abergavenny Young Farmers’ Club, he has been a member of the county executive committee and chairman of the local branch of the National Farmers’ Union. He is chairman of the county point-to-point committee and local secretary for the British Field Sports Society.

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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 : Aberdeen North

CANDIDATE : Tennant

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Tennant, a barrister, aged 42, is the younger son of the late Mr. H. J. Tennant, who was elected M.P. for Berwickshire in 1894 and sat in Parliament for some 24 years, holding several Ministerial offices during the 1914-18 war. Mr. Tennant served in Hongkong in 1940 and later saw service with the Scots Guards in North-West Europe. After the war he was in the legal division of the military government in Germany with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

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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 : Dunfermline Burghs

CANDIDATE : Kerr

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Kerr, born in 1917, and educated at Stowe, has had extensive experience in engineering workshops as a turner and rate fixer and planner and later as a works manager and has specialized in industrial relations. He is managing director of his own business, the production of electrical and steam appliances. Before the outbreak of the late war he volunteered for the Royal Navy, but could not secure his release from industry as an engineer engaged on the production of armaments.

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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 Pentlands

CANDIDATE : McNee

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. C. McNee is an honours graduate of Edinburgh University, where later she lectured on political problems and international affairs. During the war she was director of studies at the Army education centre, Edinburgh, and afterwards lectured Army audiences in Germany. She married a sheep farmer in 1928. and has two children.

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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 Cathcart

CANDIDATE : Shields

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. I. Shields, a Glasgow business man, is a native of Kilsyth, and a former provost of the burgh. He retired from municipal affairs three years ago after 12 years’ work on Kilsyth Town 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 Kelvingrove

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Williams, member for the constituency since 1945, was born in 1895. Formerly a miner, he studied at the London Labour College and Cardiff Technical College, and later became a lecturer and engaged in journalism. He served for seven years on Glasgow City Council. In 1946 he visited Austria as member of a Parliamentary delegation.

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