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 : Neath

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Thomas, West Wales organizer of the Communist Party, went to America in 1912 when he was five, and was educated there and in Canada. Returning in 1924, he took an engineering course at Swansea University. While working in the mines, he won a scholarship to London Labour College, and was one of nine expelled for their political views. ?e joined the Communists and oiganized three ” hunger ” marches to London.

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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 : Ebbw Vale

CANDIDATE : Bevan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, has sat in Parliament for the Ebbw Vale division since 1929. He was born in Tredegar in 1897 and started work in the Tredegar collieries at an early age. Prominent in trade union affairs, he was soon on the executive of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, gained a seat on the county council, and in 1921 was a leader of demonstrations of unemployed seeking assistance from the local Poor Law authorities. During the war he became conspicuous for his criticisms of the Coalition Government. His appointment as Minister of Health when the last Government took office was his first Government post.

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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 : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Tweedsmuir

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Tweedsmuir was unsuccessful in North Aberdeen in the 1945 election, but a year later won this constituency in a by-election. Her first husband, Sir Arthur Grant, was killed in action with the Grenadier Guards in Normandy, and she married Lord Tweedsmuir in 1948. Born in 1915, Lady Tweedsmuir was educated in England, Germany, and France. She is a governor of the British Film Institute.

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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 : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Gellatly

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. L. Gellatly, a retired Regular officer, has had 21 years’ service with the Gordon Highlanders and R.A.F. Contesting South Midlothian and Peebles in 1945, he lost his deposit. At the end of the last war, he served with Church of Scotland canteens in Italy and Austria, and is a welfare supervisor for the Y.M.C.A. in Fife, the Lothians, and Border counties, having the care of European voluntary workers. He farms near Edinburgh.

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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 : Edinburgh South

CANDIDATE : Earsman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. P. Earsman is leader of the Labour group in the city council, and was president of the Scottish Council of the Labour Party, 1948. He claims to be the only Briton to have served in the Red Army. He was an engineer on oil well development and served as A.D.C. to Trotsky for 18 months. On leaving Russia he received a gold medal from Trotsky in appreciation of his services to the country. For many years since his return he has been a severe critic of Soviet policy.

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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 : Glasgow Central

CANDIDATE : Aldred

PARTY : Ind. Soc.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Aldred, a Left-wing propagandist, has previously contested elections in the Central, Camlachie, and Bridgeton divisions. He has frequently sought municipal honours in Glasgow without success.

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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 : 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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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 : Glasgow Springburn

CANDIDATE : Horne

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Horne, one of the most active Communists in Scotland, is propaganda secretary of the Party’s Scottish committee. He has contested both Parliamentary and municipal elections in Glasgow.

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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 : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : MacPherson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. MacPherson won the seat in a by-election in October, 1948, which followed the death in a motor-car accident of Mr. J. Westwood, Secretary of State for Scotland. In 1945 he had unsuccessfully contested Yeovil. Born in 1904, eldest son of a keeper of the Bass Rock lighthouse, he was Dux scholar at Trinity Academy, Leith, and graduated at Edinburgh University. For 10 years a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick, he later joined the staff of University College, Exeter. He served with the Canadian Army in the last war, rising to the rank of major.

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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 : Argyll

CANDIDATE : Nicholson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Nicholson, who is 20 and the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Glasgow, and spent some years in South Africa. He is a student at Glasgow University reading economics.

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