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 : Tynemouth

CANDIDATE : Colman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss G. Colman, member for the division in the last Parliament, was born in 1892, the daughter of a canon of the Church of England and was brought up in a Conservative environment, but while at Newnham College, Cambridge, she adopted Socialism. Later she became a tutor in Ruskin College and a staff tutor in London University. During the war she worked as a temporary Civil servant with the Ministry of Labour and the Board of Trade.

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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 : Walthamstow West

CANDIDATE : Attlee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister since 1945, and now in his sixty-eighth year, represented Limehouse in Parliament continuously from 1922 until the dissolution. He was educated at Haileybury and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1905. As secretary of Toynbee Hall he gained a wide knowledge of life among the people of East London, and he was for a year Mayor of Stepney. During the 1914-18 war he served in The South Lancashire Regiment and the Tank Corps, and retired in 1919 with the rank of major. In the first Labour Government he became Under-Secretary of State for War and in the second was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Postmaster-General. From 1935 to 1940 he was Leader of the Opposition in the House, but with the formation of the National Government he became, first, Lord Privy Seal, and later Secretary of State for the Dominions and Lord President of the Council. From 1942 he was Deputy Prime Minister. When the Labour Party were returned to power he became Prime Minister and, for a time, combined that office with the post of Minister of Defence. An outstanding feature of his period of office was the grant of self-government to India and the completion of the legislative programme included in the Labour Party manifesto at the 1945 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 : Wembley North

CANDIDATE : Dann

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Dann, an average-adjuster, was educated at Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Liberal Club in 1948. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council. Commissioned in The Welsh Guards during the war, he served in Italy and Austria with the 1st Guards Brigade. He was born in 1924.

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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 : Wigan

CANDIDATE : Webster

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. S. Webster, a barrister on the Northern Circuit, is 24, and lives at Rochdale. He was the first Liberal to contest Wigan since 1918. As a sub-lieutenant in the Navy, serving with the Fleet Air Arm, he was attached to the first night fighter squadron formed by the Navy and saw active service in the North Atlantic. He is a Rugby Union footballer.

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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 : Wolverhampton South West

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. D. Hughes was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Balliol. He is organizing secretary of the Fabian Society, and a former member of Lambeth Borough Council. He served as a lieutenant with the Royal Artillery during the war. In the 1945 election he captured West Wolverhampton from the Conservatives. He was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Education and then to the Under-Secretary of State for War.

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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 : York

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Haydn Davies, who sat for the old S.W. St. Pancras seat, was the M.P. wh6 moved the motion to set up the Royal Commission on the Press. Aged 44, he is an honours:, graduate in English of the University of Wales, and studied under Mr. Hugh Dalton at the: London School of Economics. After a period! as an English teacher in London, he turned to journalism, and is an industrial correspondent.

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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 : Newbury

CANDIDATE : Hurd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony Hurd, son of Sir Percy Hurd, M.P. for Devizes 1924-45, was elected for Newbury in 1945. Born in 1901, he was educated at Marl-borough and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and has farmed in Wiltshire for 20 years, as well as writing on agricultural subjects. He has travelled extensively investigating agriculture in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, South Africa, the United States, and Canada, and has broadcast farming talks for the B.B.C. From 1939 to 1945 he was an assistant agricultural adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, and is a member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society.

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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 : Buckinghamshire South

CANDIDATE : Dee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Dee, born in 1904, is a draughtsman and was president of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen in 1947-48. He held office in the Balham and Tooting Labour Party from 1924 to 1931, and since 1947 has been a member of the executive of the Southern Regional Council of the Labour Party. He is commercial manager of an engineering firm in north-west London, and in 1947 was appointed to the Council of Industrial Design.

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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 : Crewe

CANDIDATE : Turner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. J. R. T. Turner, in practice in Nant-wich, was educated at Shrewsbury, Cambridge, and St. George’s Hospital, London. He was chairman of the Nantwich branch of the Conservative Party from 1945 to 1947 and has served on the Nantwich U.D.C.

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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 : Stalybridge and Hyde

CANDIDATE : Herrick

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. P. Herrick was born in Birmingham 50 years ago and went to work in a Hyde cotton mill at the age of 13. After long unemployment he became a miner and is now in the engineering industry. He served in the R.A.F. in a glider training unit during the war. Formerly in the Labour Party, he failed by seven votes to secure election to the local town council.

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