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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wakefield Constituency – Biography of Berwin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wakefield Constituency – Biography of Berwin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wakefield

    CANDIDATE : Berwin

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. J. Berwin, who was born in 1926, was at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and is now at Leeds University where he is chairman of debates, Leeds University Union, and is on the Leeds University Union Committee. During the war he served with the Royal Navy. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council, and of the Yorkshire Area Liberal Federation Executive.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warrington Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warrington Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Warrington

    CANDIDATE : Morgan

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. H. B. Morgan, a specialist in industrial diseases, is Medical Adviser to the T.U.C. and several trade unions. He has practised in southeast London, and served on Greenwich and Pad-dington councils. He was M.P. for N.W. Camber-well, 1929-31, and was returned in 1940 for Rochdale, which he represented until this election. Born in 1885 he was educated in the West Indies and Glasgow University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley South Constituency – Biography of Gill

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley South Constituency – Biography of Gill

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wembley South

    CANDIDATE : Gill

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. Gill, aged 28, is a toolmaker employed at Wembley and living at Hanwell. He is a member of the local A.E.U. committee and a shop steward.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Willesden East Constituency – Biography of Hammersley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Willesden East Constituency – Biography of Hammersley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Willesden East

    CANDIDATE : Hammersley

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. S. Hammersley, chairman of a Lancashire cotton-spinning firm, is 57, and was M.P. for Stockport, 1924-35. He did not seek re-election, for business reasons, but was returned for E. Willesden in the 1938 by-election, and defeated in 1945. He was wounded in Gallipoli in the 1914-18 war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woodford Constituency – Biography of Hills

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woodford Constituency – Biography of Hills

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woodford

    CANDIDATE : Hills

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Hills (37) is a printer who for the past three years has been studying at Oxford University, and while there was vice-chairman of the Oxford City Labour Party, president of the Oxford Union Society, and chairman of the Oxford University Labour Party group. He was in the Army during the war, and attained the rank of captain.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedford Constituency – Biography of Skeffington-Lodge

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedford Constituency – Biography of Skeffington-Lodge

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedford

    CANDIDATE : Skeffington-Lodge

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Bedfordshire’s first Labour member, is the son of a farmer and jointly owns with his sister a 2,000-acre farm in Yorkshire. A bachelor, aged 45, he was chairman of the divisional Labour Party at Pudsey and Otley. He took the lead in forming a group of the Socialist Christian League in the House of Commons.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Windsor Constituency – Biography of Mott-Radclyffe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Windsor Constituency – Biography of Mott-Radclyffe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Windsor

    CANDIDATE : Mott-Radclyffe

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. E. Mott-Radclyffe became M.P. for Windsor at a by-election in 1945, has been a Conservative Whip, and is joint secretary of the Conservative Party Foreign Affairs Committee. An alternative delegate to the Council of Europe, he took part in the conference at Strasbourg on social security. Born in 1911 and educated at Eton and Oxford, he was for a time in the diplomatic service, and during the war, in which he served with The Rifle Brigade, he was on the staff in Greece and Syria.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wycombe Constituency – Biography of Astor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wycombe Constituency – Biography of Astor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wycombe

    CANDIDATE : Astor

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. W. Astor won East Fulham in 1935 and represented the constituency in Parliament until 1945. The eldest son of Viscount Astor, he was born in 1907, and on leaving Oxford travelled in the Far East for the Institute of Pacific Relations, worked with the Pilgrim Trust, and was secretary to Lord Lytton when the commission of inquiry on Manchuria visited China. He joined the R.N.V.R.. in 1938 and served in the Middle East. He is keenly interested in agriculture, and farms in Buckinghamshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Knutsford Constituency – Biography of Maitland

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Knutsford Constituency – Biography of Maitland

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Knutsford

    CANDIDATE : Maitland

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. L. Maitland, a bachelor aged 41, is an engineer who lives in Scotland. He is a director of a firm with offices in Glasgow and London. He was educated at Ackworth School and Sheffield University. He served on the Liberal Party’s Reconstruction Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Banks

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Banks

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wirral

    CANDIDATE : Banks

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. M. Banks was born in 1915, went to Geneva as university delegate for research at the I.L.O., and, returning to Cambridge, read international law. Called to the Bar in 1936, he practised on the Northern Circuit and at the Central Criminal Court. He served over five yc;ars in the Army, and is a former chairman of Hoylake Council.

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