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 : Birmingham Erdington

CANDIDATE : Wright

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Air Cdre. A. C. Wright, the M.P. for the “vision from 1936 to 1945, is 64. He was “ucated at Winchester. After service in the urst world war he raised, in 1926, the 605 a™ a’y of Warwick) Squadron of the Auxili-year Force> which he commanded for 10 rnr>H a of which he is now hon. air com-com For four yeare from 1941 he was Trail? ant for the Midlands of the Air •raining Corps.

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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 : Birmingham Northfield

CANDIDATE : Iremonger

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. L. Iremonger is 33, and a public relations officer, and was formerly on the staff r I Conservative Central Office. A cousin oi Mr. Anthony Eden, he was at Oxford, after which he joined the Colonial Administrative service. In 1942 he enlisted in the Royal New ?Zealand Navy as an ordinary seaman, and was ^<2fimissi°necI- tne f°Ilowfng year. serving until ly46. His wife has achieved distinction as a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster.

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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 : Birmingham Yardley

CANDIDATE : Matthews

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Matthews, a chartered accountant, is secretary and a director of two well-known Birmingham businesses. Aged 40, he was born m Birmingham and educated at Repton. He was at the Admiralty during the war on financial work.

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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 : Bolton East

CANDIDATE : Bell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Bell is a chancery barrister practising in Manchester and is aged 50. Born at Wimbledon, he was educated at Stonyhurst College and at Queen’s College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1925. He served in the Royal Navy in the first world war, and in the second he was commissioned and served in France. In 1941 he joined the staff of the Judge Advocate General.

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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 : Bradford Central

CANDIDATE : Sarsby

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. F. Sarsby, who is 38, is an aeronautical engineer, living at Wraysbury. During the war he was engaged with the Pathfinder Force under Air Vice-Marshal Bennett, who is now again his chief in the aircraft company by whom he is employed.

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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 : Brighouse and Spenborough

CANDIDATE : Woolley

PARTY : Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. E. Woolley, who was born in 1901, was National Liberal M.P. for Spen Valley. 1940-45, being defeated at the last election. A native of Blackburn, he is 49, and joint managing director of a firm of manufacturing chemists. In the war, he was on the headquarters staff of South-Eastern Command and later Western Command, reaching the rank of major. He has held many offices in Methodism.

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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 : Bristol South

CANDIDATE : Wilkins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Wilkins, formerly a linotype operator in a Bristol newspaper office, was born in 1899. He joined the Labour Party in 1922 and was for 10 years a member of Bristol City Council. Elected for South Bristol in 1945, he became an assistant Government Whip two years later and was afterwards appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. During the wan as a stoker in the Royal Navy, he served on Q-ships submarine-hunting off the Irish coast.

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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 : Burnley

CANDIDATE : Carradice

PARTY : I.L.P.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Carradice, 64 years of age, has been district organizer for the Independent Labour Party in Lancashire and Cheshire since 1946, after having been organizer in Glasgow for three years. He was previously a branch secretary of the General and Municipal Workers’ 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 : Chesterfield

CANDIDATE : Barker

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Barker, a machine worker, a shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union, fu ^airman of a works committee, lived in tne Soviet Union for two years and has been secretary of the Sheffield Communist Party.

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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 : Croydon East

CANDIDATE : Gray

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Gray, a Southern Counties representative of a Yorkshire textile firm, has been an active worker in the Liberal cause in Surrey for many years. He represents Whyteleafe on the Caterham and Warlinsrfiam Urban Council.

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