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 : Leeds South

CANDIDATE : Wood

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. H. Wood, who is in the wholesale clothing trade in Leeds, was born there in 1910. A member of Harrogate Town Council and of the West Riding Divisional Education Executive, he is a governor of Harrogate Grammar School. In the war he was an R-A.O.C. major in the Rhine Army and now commands the R.A.O.C. 50th Infantry Division, T.A.

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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 : Leicester South East

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. K. Lewis was born in 1897 at Hanley, North Staffordshire. He began work in a coalmine at 13, and during the 1914-18 war served in France, Italy, and Palestine. He is now a public relations officer for a cinema corporation. He contested Walsall in 1923 as a Conservative, but was defeated.

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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 : Liverpool Exchange

CANDIDATE : Braddock

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E.. M. Braddock won this seat at the last election from Sir John Shute. Her return was one of the surprises of the election. With her husband, Mr. John Brad-dock, leader of the local Labour Party, she has given long service to municipal affairs. She inherited her interest in public life from her mother.

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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 : Liverpool Walton

CANDIDATE : Haworth

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Haworth, who won this division in 1945, unsuccessfully contested West Derby in 1935. Born in 1896, he is the national treasurer of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He was a member of the British Parliamentary delegation, led by Lord Holden, which visited Burma a month before the General 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 : Manchester Cheetham

CANDIDATE : Lever

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. H. Lever represented the Exchange division in the late Parliament. Born in 1914, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at the university and was afterwards called to the Bar and practised on the North-Western Circuit. He served, first in the ranks, during the war, and was commissioned in the R.A.F. Regiment. His brother, Mr. L. Lever, won the neighbouring constituency of Ardwick.

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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 : Manchester Withington

CANDIDATE : Cundiff

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Cundiff, son of a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, was M.P. for Rusholme from the by-election in 1944 until 1945, when he lost the seat by 10 votes. Born in 1895, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery from Manchester University O.T.C. Seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 he was shot down three times. In the last war he served on antisubmarine patrol and was torpedoed off Dunkirk. He has business interests in chemicals, brewing, and engineering.

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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 : Middlesbrough West

CANDIDATE : Fothergill

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Fothergill is president-elect of the Liberal Party. Aged 43, he is a native of Dewsbury, and was educated at Bootham School, York. He is a woollen manufacturer, and founder and governing director of a firm with branches at Dewsbury and Edinburgh. During the war he was appointed a labour and welfare adviser in industry.

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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 upon Tyne North

CANDIDATE : Herbert

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Herbert was born in 1905, the son of Sir Jesse Herbert, one of the leaders of the Liberal campaigns of 1906 and 1910. Educated at Westminster and University College, Oxford (where he was president of the Union), he joined the B.B.C., and was programme director for the Malaya Broadcasting Corporation until two days before the Japanese took Singapore, from which he escaped. Until the end of the war he was in charge of political broadcasting for S.E.A.C. Appointed secretary of the Liberal Central Association in 1947, he became director and chief agent.

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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 East

CANDIDATE : Gluckstein

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. L. H. Gluckstein, K.C., was member for the division from 1931 until 1945. Born in London in 1897, son of one of the founders of J. Lyons and Co. and Salmon and Gluckstein, Ltd., he was educated at Oxford, where he took an honours degree in jurisprudence. He was wounded in the 1914-18 war, and in the last war served with the British Expeditionary Force in France. Subsequently he was an A.Q.M.G. and a Deputy Director in the War Office. A barrister since 1922, he took silk in 1945.

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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 : Oldham West

CANDIDATE : Horobin

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. M. Horobin, aged 49, is a son of the late Principal J. C. Horobin, Homerton College, Cambridge, and from 1931 to 1935 represented Central Southwark. He was at Sidney ?ussex College, Cambridge, and took an honours degree in economics. In 1918-19 he was a flight lieutenant; he served in the Far East with the R.A.F. in the 1939-45 war as a squadron leader, and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. In 1923 he refounded the Mansfield House University Settlement, Albert Dock, London, and has lived there for the past 23 years as warden.

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