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 : Newbury

CANDIDATE : Burrows

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Burrows is 28, is a Lancastrian and school teacher. As a boy, he travelled in France with his father for two years, and, early in 1939, though only 17, he joined The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and saw five years’ service in the war. He lives at Chalfont St. Giles, where he is vice-chairman of the parish council, and takes a prominent part in the village workers’ educational movement.

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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 : Wycombe

CANDIDATE : Haire

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. John Haire won Wycombe in 1945. Born in 1908, the son of a working engineer, he was educated at Bangor Grammar School, and graduated at Queen’s University, Belfast, with first – class honours in English literature, and became a schoolmaster and lecturer. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in Coastal Command and for a time air liaison officer with the Admiralty.

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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 : Knutsford

CANDIDATE : Hamnett

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Hamnett, of East Didsbury, Manchester, is 43, and has lived in the area all his life. He is on the Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative movement, and a director of Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society. He is publicity officer for the Union of Shop Stewards and Allied Trades.

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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 : Wirral

CANDIDATE : Lloyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, K..C., first elected for Wirral in 1945, was born at West Kirby in 1904. At Cambridge he won an open classical scholarship, and was called to the Bar in 1930. During the war he was a brigadier on the General Staff of the Second Army. A K.C. in 1941, he became Recorder of Wigan in 1948, and has been chairman of Hoylake council. He was President of the Cambridge Union in 1927.

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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 : Truro

CANDIDATE : Whitmarsh

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Whitmarsh is an incorporated accountant practising in Plymouth. He is 41, and was educated at Plymouth College. He is a director of several companies. Associated with the English Speaking Union, he was formerly Plymouth secretary, and is a former chairman of the Plymouth Junior Chamber of Commerce.

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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 : High Peak

CANDIDATE : Rothwell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. S. Rothwell, aged 45, is chairman of the Independent Traders’ Alliance and a director of a firm of wholesale grocers. He is on the executive committee of the Lancashire, Cheshire and North-West Derbyshire Liberal 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 : Devon North

CANDIDATE : Naylor

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Naylor is chairman of the Liberal Party Publicity Department, and unsuccessfully contested Aylesbury in 1945. He was educated at Radley and St. John’s College, Cambridge. At the beginning of the war, he ran an ambulance station in the East End. Later he joined the Army, rose to major, and became a parachutist for the underground movement and a worker for the Maquis in France. He is .a member of the executive of the Liberal Party.

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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 : Dorset North

CANDIDATE : Byers

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Byers, Liberal Chief Whip in the last Parliament, won North Dorset from the Conservatives in 1945 for the first time in 21 years Aged 34, he was educated at Westminster College (he was the first exchange scholar with Milton Academy, Massachusetts) and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in politics, philosophy, and economics, and was a champion hurdler. In 1939 he enlisted as a private, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served on the General Staff of 21 Army Group under Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery. He is a farmer and a law student at Gray’s Inn.

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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 : Consett

CANDIDATE : Goodhart

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. C. Goodhart, aged 25, is a student at Cambridge University, where he has taken a degree with honours in history. He is a senior committee member of the Cambridge Union and editor of Varsity. He was educated in America from 1938 to 1943, when he returned to serve in the war. He has been chairman of study groups in the University Conservative Association.

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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 : Isle of Ely

CANDIDATE : Gray

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. A. F. Gray, a retired naval officer of 49, is a farmer at Wimblington, near March. By giving a false age, he saw four years’ service in the Navy in the first war, obtained his captain’s certificate when 25, and in the last war was a destroyer captain and senior officer commanding an Atlantic convoy escort group.

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