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 : Dunbartonshire West

CANDIDATE : Allan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. R. A. Allan had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy and was the youngest officer to hold the rank of commander in the R.N.V.R. For his war service he was awarded the D.S.O., the O.B.E., French Legion of Honour, and American Legion of Merit, and was four times mentioned in dispatches. For a time he was attached to the British Embassy, Washington, and is interested in Anglo-American relations. He contested Dunbartonshire in 1945.

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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 : Galloway

CANDIDATE : McKie

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. McKie is a member of one of the t oldest families in Gallo-way, who received land from King Robert the Bruce more than 600 years ago. His grandfather and great grandfather both represented the constituency, and Mr. McKie has held it since 1931. Born in 1898, he was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He is a landowner and a bachelor.

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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 : Rutherglen

CANDIDATE : Brooman-White

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. Brooman-White is a journalist and took an honours degree in economics and modern languages at Cambridge. He served in the war and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. A former secretary to Sir Archibald Cochrane, Unionist M.P. for Dunbartonshire, of which Mr. Brooman-White is a native, he was for a year in the diplomatic service at the British Embassy in Turkey.

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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 : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Wilson established himself a few years ago as a market gardener in Blairgowrie. Aged about 26, he is a Bachelor of Science, and during the war was in the War Department as a ” back room boy.”

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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 : West Lothian

CANDIDATE : Borrowman

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Borrowman is 32 and a native of Blackridge, West Lothian. A railway worker, he was appointed full-time organizer for the Communist Party two years ago. In 1947 he led a deputation to the House of Commons to press for the establishment of new industries in the county. He unsuccessfully contested a local municipal 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 : 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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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 : Camberwell Peckham

CANDIDATE : Gibson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Gibson, aged 34, son of a Tyneside shipyard worker, is a teacher. He served with the R.A.F. in the war, and is secretary of the local Communist 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 : Fulham West

CANDIDATE : Summerskill

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. Edith Summerskill was appointed Jjj Parliamentary Secretary W to the Ministry of Food I in 1945 and is a Privy §J’ Councillor. Born in l”01, she became a doctor in 1924, and was in practice until 1945. khe is married to a doctor, and has two children. From 1932 to 1938, she served on the Middlesex County Council, and was elected to Parliament in 1938.

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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 : Hammersmith South

CANDIDATE : Ritter

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. S. Ritter, who was born in 1925, was educated at Cheltenham and the London School of Economics. A former Civil servant, he is a professional philatelist. In 1947-48 he was chairman of the London University Liberal Federation. During the war he was a radio officer in the Merchant Navy.

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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 : Islington South West

CANDIDATE : Waddilove

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. W. Waddilove is a Fleet Street printer and an active trade unionist. During the war he served with the Air Ministry and for four years was inspector-in-charge of aircraft factories. He is 39.

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