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 : Derby North

CANDIDATE : Seely

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. V. Seely is a nephew of the late Lord Mottistone. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he served in the war with the 2nd Armoured Division in the Western Desert. He was captured in 1941, but escaped and, after four months at liberty, crossed the Swiss frontier. He is a director of several firms.

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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 : Ealing North

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Hudson won the new constituency of West Ealing for the Labour Party in 1945. He had been Labour M.P. for Huddersfield from 1923 to 1931, when he was defeated. Mr. Hudson has been a schoolmaster in the north of England and has held office in the N.U.T. A prominent propagandist for the Labour and Co-operative parties, he is also secretary of the National Temperance Federation.

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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 : Eccles

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Jones, aged 39, studied at Bristol University and as a post-graduate at Oxford. For a time he was a Baptist minister at Wake-field, but gave up the Church to pursue social welfare work. He was a pioneer in the establishment of unemployment craft centres and old age pensioners’ clubs, and is a W.E.A. lecturer on sociology. During the war he served at Western Command.

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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 : Finchley

CANDIDATE : Crowder

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. J. F. E. Crowder first entered the House of Commons for Finchley in 1935. Born in 1890, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He is an underwriter and was elected a member of Lloyd’s in 1920. From 1914 to 1919 he served with the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and from 1939 to 1945 he was a staff captain and army welfare officer. For 15 years from 1931 he was a member of Hants County Council and served 13 years on the Fleet Urban 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 : Grimsby

CANDIDATE : Younger

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. G. Younger, appointed Under-Secre-tary, Home Office in 1947, is son of the 2nd Viscount Younger of Leckie. Born in 1908 he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, 1932. In the war he served as major in the Intelligence Corps in N. Africa and W. Europe. As an M.P. was chairman of the European Committee of Unrra, 1946-47, and on the United Kingdom delegations to the United Nations.

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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 : Hartlepools, The

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. T. Jones, who is 50, won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945 with a majority of 275. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Transport. A former railway signalman, he was from 1934 until his election to Parliament a member of the Ponty-pridd Urban Council. In 1921 he was a branch chairman and secretary in the National Union of Railwaymen and then chairman of the South Wales and ?onmouthshire District Council of the Union. He is a member of the executive of the Welsh Federation of Education.

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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 : Hendon South

CANDIDATE : Tolley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. H. Tolley, aged 54, has been twice British amateur golf champion, twice French open golf champion and twice Welsh open amateur golf champion. He was last year’s captain of the Royal and Ancient Club. He has been connected with the Stock Exchange for many years and has also lived in New York. He won the M.C. at Ypres in the 1914-18 war and in the last war commanded a company of The Royal Sussex Regt.. and was a liaison officer with the United States 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 : Huddersfield West

CANDIDATE : Wade

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Donald Wade is a partner in a Leeds firm of solicitors, and was formerly a lecturer in law at Leeds University. Has taken part in Yorkshire Liberal activities for many years and is chairman of the Yorkshire Liberal Federation, a member of the Liberal Party Executive, and also hon. treasurer of the Yorkshire Congregational Union. He was born at Ukley in 1904.

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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 : Kingston upon Hull Central

CANDIDATE : Wilberforce

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. O. Wilberforce, son of an Indian High Court judge, was born in 1907, educated at Winchester and Oxford and called to the Bar in 1932. During “the war he served as an artillery officer in Norway and later became head of the legal division of the Control Commission in Germany. He is a descendant of William Wilberforce.

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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 : Leeds Central

CANDIDATE : Delepine

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. L. R. Delepine, aged 30, a cost accountant, was educated at Leeds University and in France and Spain. He served with the Fleet Air Arm during the war, and after being invalided out became honorary agent of three of the divisional Liberal associations in Newcastle. He is now hon. secretary of the Leeds Young Liberals’ Federation.

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