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 : Glasgow Woodside

CANDIDATE : Woodside

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. L. Woodside, son of a former Glasgow minister, is a sales representative of an electric cable firm. In 1914 he emigrated to Canada, but returned the next year to fight with the Canadian forces, and later held a commission in The Highland Light Infantry.

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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 : Aberdeenshire East

CANDIDATE : McKenzie

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. McKenzie, a civil engineer on the staff of British Railways, is a graduate of Glasgow University. Aged 23, he was one of the youngest candidates in Scotland—a year younger than Mr. Boothby when he first won the seat.

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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 : Bute and North Ayrshire

CANDIDATE : Aitken

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Aitken, of Ardrossan, was born in 1903, and is a foreman employed by an oil refining company. A former chairman of the Ayr Burghs Labour Party, for the last 10 years he has been organizing secretary on the National Council of Labour Colleges.

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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 : Caithness and Sutherland

CANDIDATE : Robertson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir David Robertson, member for Streatham from 1939, was adopted for this constituency after the local Unionist Association had withdrawn support for the sitting member, Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower. Born 60 years ago in Glasgow, he was educated at Allan Glen’s Schools and Glasgow University. He served in the Ministry of Food at the end of the first war and was chief accountant to the Ministry at the Paris Peace Conference. Afterwards he became managing director of fish and cold storage companies.

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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 West

CANDIDATE : Gallacher

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Gallacher represented the constituency from 1935 to the dissolution. He was the only Communist M.P. until the General Election of 1945 made him the leader of a party of two. He was chairman of the Clyde Workers Committee from 1914 to 1918, and has been a leading member of the Communist Party and the Communist International since 1920.

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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 : Lanark

CANDIDATE : Steele

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Steele, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance in the last Parliament, is 45, and was educated at an elementary school. He is the son of a miner and became a railway clerk. Before his election to Parliament in 1945 he was a station-master. He has been a director of Lanark Co-operative Society, and in 1946 was on the Parliamentary delegation to Germany.

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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 : Orkney and Shetland

CANDIDATE : Grimond

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Grimond, who is 36, is the son-in-law of Lady Violet Bonham Carter. He is a scholar of Balliol, having won there the Brackenbury History Scholarship. He also took 1st class Honours in ” Modern Greats.” He is a barrister. He reached the rank of major during the war and then worked with Unrra, leaving that organization to become secretary to the Scottish National Trust.

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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 : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. P. Thomas was born in 1896, and is a company director. He joined the Labour Party in 1926. He has held various positions in the Glasgow Parliamentary Debating Association fcr 15 years, and is a member of the Theosophical Society and founded the Young Theosophical Movement for Scotland in 1923. He is interested in international affairs, and lectured in the United States in 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 : Bethnal Green

CANDIDATE : Harris

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Percy Harris, who is 73, first elected to Parliament for Harborough in 1916-18, represented S.W. Bethnal Green from 1922 to 1945. For 35 years he has served on the L.C.C. and after the 1949 elections was the only Libera on the council. Educated at Harrow and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was called to the Bar in 1899. He was Chief Whip of the Parliamentary Liberal Party from 1935 to 1945, and deputy-leader in the war-time Parliament, and also chairman of the House of Commons All-Party Panel, and treasurer of the Interparliamentary Union.

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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 : Cities of London and Westminster

CANDIDATE : Carritt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Carritt contested the Abbey division of Westminster in 1945. Born in 1908, he graduated at Oxford. For five years was national organizer of the League of Nations Youth Organization. Joined the Communist Party in 1931, and is secretary of the London Young Communist League. Served with the 14th Army in Burma.

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