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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeenshire West Constituency – Biography of Spence

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeenshire West Constituency – Biography of Spence

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeenshire West

    CANDIDATE : Spence

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. R. Spence is managing partner in a firm of woollen manufacturers and a director of other companies. He is 52 and served with the Royal Flying Corps in the 1914-18 war. In 1939 he formed and commanded 151 Squadron, Air Defence Cadet Corps, later the A.T.C., and resigned his commission as wing commander in 1945 on giving up command of the north-east area, A.T.C. He was elected for Central Aberdeenshire in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ayrshire Central Constituency – Biography of Manuel

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ayrshire Central Constituency – Biography of Manuel

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ayrshire Central

    CANDIDATE : Manuel

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. C. Manuel, a member of Ayr County Council, has been active in local government for ?any years. He is an engine driver and a prominent member of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. Born in 1901, he is an executive member of the Scottish Housing and Town Planning Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caithness and Sutherland Constituency – Biography of Sinclair

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caithness and Sutherland Constituency – Biography of Sinclair

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Caithness and Sutherland

    CANDIDATE : Sinclair

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Archibald Sinclair was Secretary of State for Air during the war. He is a former Secretary of State for Scotland and after 23 years in Parliament, lost his membership for this division in 1945, when he was Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons. Born in 1890, he went to Eton and Sandhurst, and he is Hon. LL.D. of Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities. He entered the Army in 1910, and was personal military secretary to Mr. Churchill when Secretary of State for War, 1919-21, and his private secretary at the Colonial Office in 1921-22. He is Lord Lieutenant of Caithness and has been Lord Rector of Glasgow University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Inverness Constituency – Biography of Douglas-Hamilton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Inverness Constituency – Biography of Douglas-Hamilton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Inverness

    CANDIDATE : Douglas-Hamilton

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, born in 1909, is a brother of the Duke of Hamilton. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1939 to 1945, latterly as wing commander, and won the D.F.C. In 1945 he was commandant of the A.T.C. in Scotland. He is chairman of the Outdoor Training Committee of the Central Council of Physical Recreation (Scotland) and mountaineer.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Motherwell Constituency – Biography of Anderson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Motherwell Constituency – Biography of Anderson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Motherwell

    CANDIDATE : Anderson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Anderson, born in 1888, and educated at Pulteneytown Academy and Edinburgh University, where he took his M.A., was a school teacher for 30 years. He was a local councillor for 16 years, and during the war acted as convener of civil defence. He has been a member of several Parliamentary delegations abroad. He won Motherwell for the Labour Party in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orkney and Shetland Constituency – Biography of Neven-Spence

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orkney and Shetland Constituency – Biography of Neven-Spence

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Orkney and Shetland

    CANDIDATE : Neven-Spence

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Basil Neven-Spence was born in 1888, and in 1911 graduated from Edinburgh University M.B., Ch.B. Joining the R.A.M.C. in the same year, he was seconded to the Egyptian Army and the Sudan Government. He served throughout the 1914-18 war, mostly in the Middle East, and in 1924 he returned to England as a specialist physician to Aldershot Command. Three years later he retired from the Army, and in 1935 entered Parliament for Orkney and Shetland, and retained the seat in 1945. He was knighted in 1945, and is a vice-Lieutenant of Shetland.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire Constituency – Biography of Woodburn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire Constituency – Biography of Woodburn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire

    CANDIDATE : Woodburn

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Woodburn, appointed Secretary of State for Scotland in 1947, is a native of Edinburgh. He was elected to Parliament in 1939, and during the war – time Government was Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary for Scotland. In 1945 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply. Born in 1890, he went to Heriot Watt College, and subsequently spent 25 years in engineering and ironfounding administration, specializing in languages and costing. Author and lecturer on economics, he has been president of the National Council of Labour Colleges, and secretary of the Scottish Labour Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bethnal Green Constituency – Biography of Harris

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bethnal Green Constituency – Biography of Harris

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Carritt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Carritt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hackney South Constituency – Biography of Brooks

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hackney South Constituency – Biography of Brooks

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hackney South

    CANDIDATE : Brooks

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. P. Brooks, a manufacturer’s agent, aged 32, had an elementary school education. He joined the Conservative Party 15 years ago. A resident in Hackney for 20 years, he was elected to the borough council in 1949, but was defeated in the L.C.C. elections. He served in the Army for six years.

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