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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Maryhill Constituency – Biography of Hannan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Maryhill Constituency – Biography of Hannan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Maryhill

    CANDIDATE : Hannan

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Hannan, former insurance agent and Glasgow town councillor, was elected in 1945. He is a native of Glasgow, lives in the constituency, and has been a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury since 1946. He was a member of Glasgow City Council, and his special interests have been national insurance, housing, food, and fuel and power. He is 44.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of Campbell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of Campbell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Springburn

    CANDIDATE : Campbell

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. W. Campbell, 45 years old, is a master grocer. He is vice-chairman of the Glasgow Grocers’ and Provision M?rchants” Association and is convener of the association’s education committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paisley Constituency – Biography of Shaw

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paisley Constituency – Biography of Shaw

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paisley

    CANDIDATE : Shaw

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. V. M. Shaw aged 29, is president of the Scottish executive of the British Export Trade Research Organization. He served as a captain with The King’s Own Scottish Borderers during the war and acted as liaison officer for the United States Army Air Force. He got his half-blue for golf at Oxford University, where he was an honours graduate in philosophy, politics, and economics.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Argyll Constituency – Biography of McCallum

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Argyll Constituency – Biography of McCallum

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Argyll

    CANDIDATE : McCallum

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. D. McCallum, born in 1888, entered the Army as a career and served throughout the 1914-18 war. Later he served in Syria, and was attached to the British Legation at Peking and Sofia and to the Embassy in Cairo. In the last war he served on General Wavell’s staff at G.H.Q., Middle East, Cairo. He is interested in farming and in raising pedigree Highland cattle. He has been a member for Argyll since 1940.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banffshire Constituency – Biography of Duthie

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banffshire Constituency – Biography of Duthie

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banffshire

    CANDIDATE : Duthie

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. S. Duthie, elected for the constituency in 1945, is a Banff-shire man and was born in a fishing village and trained in a Buckie bank. After living in Canada for some years, he served in the 1914-18 war in The Gordon Highlanders and the Canadian Army. He was at the Ministry of Food in an administrative capacity in the last war and was deputy chief of the Unrra organization in Greece.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of Hart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of Hart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dunbartonshire West

    CANDIDATE : Hart

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Hart, aged 38, formerly a welder in a Clyde shipyard and convener of shop stewards in the yard, has been a member of the Communist Party since its inception, and has been a party organizer in Scotland and Sheffield. He is a former member of the Clyde-bank Town Council, and is industrial organizer in London for the Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Galloway Constituency – Biography of Thompson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Galloway Constituency – Biography of Thompson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Galloway

    CANDIDATE : Thompson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. F. Thompson, aged 25, and an M.A. of Edinburgh, is taking an honours course in economics and political philosophy there. He served in the forces for five years, taking part in the Italian campaign, and later was warden of an agricultural hostel in Berwickshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutherglen Constituency – Biography of Goodfellow

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutherglen Constituency – Biography of Goodfellow

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rutherglen

    CANDIDATE : Goodfellow

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. C. B. Goodeellow is the chairman of the City of Glasgow Women’s Liberal Association. Her husband withdrew his candidature as a Liberal at Hillhead.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Renfrewshire East Constituency – Biography of Lloyd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Renfrewshire East Constituency – Biography of Lloyd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Renfrewshire East

    CANDIDATE : Lloyd

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. Guy Lloyd, who was born in 1890, and went to Rossall and Keble College, Oxford, was until 1937 an administrator with a firm of thread manufacturers in Glasgow. He resigned to enter politics. In 1940 he won Renfrewshire at a by-election, and held the seat in 1945. He served in the 1914-18 war, and was awarded the D.S.O. He was also in the Army in the last war until his election to Parliament.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea South Constituency – Biography of Ganley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea South Constituency – Biography of Ganley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Battersea South

    CANDIDATE : Ganley

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. C. S. Ganley has for many years been active in public life as a school manager and governor, and as a member of Battersea Council and the London County Council. She was also a director of London Co-operative Society for 28 years, and four times president. She was born in 1879, and had an elementary school education. She was first returned as M.P. for Battersea South in 1945, when her majority was 7,225.

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