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 : Western Isles

CANDIDATE : Macmillan

PARTY : Lab

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. K. Macmillan won this division in 1935 at the age of 22 and has represented it for 15 years. He is chairman of the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel and chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party. Born in 1913, he was educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University, and is a journalist and editor of a local Labour weekly journal.

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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 : Lanarkshire North

CANDIDATE : Ross

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. T. D. Ross is a serving officer with The Black Watch and is stationed at Winston Barracks, Lanark. He was awarded the D.S.O. in the Chindit campaign in Burma. His father, a Scot, moved to Stourbridge to set up in business as a carpet manufacturer.

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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 : Gomme-Duncan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. A. Gomme-Duncan was born in 1893, and educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School. He served in the 1914-18 war with The Black Watch and The London Scottish, and was awarded the M.C. After the war he served in India with The Black Watch, and was a staff officer, Western Command, Quetta, and then in a similar capacity with Northern Command, York. He retired from the Army in 1937, but served again in the last war, retiring in 1945. In the same year he entered Parliament for Perth and Kinross, and gave particular attention to matters concerning Scottish agriculture.

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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 : Mathers

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Mathers was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1946 and the two following years. Born at St. Boswells, Roxburghshire, in 1886, he worked as a railway clerk and was active in trade union and labour affairs. He was a member of Carlisle City Council from 1919 to 1921, and from 1929 to 1931 he was M.P. for West Edinburgh, and re-entered Parliament in 1935 for the then Linlithgow division. In 1944-45 he was Comptroller of H.M. Household, and later became Treasurer of the Household and Deputy Chief Whip. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Edinburgh. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1947.

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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 North

CANDIDATE : Jay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Douglas Jay, who was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in December, 1947, was born in 1907, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of All Souls, he is a journalist and specialist in economics. He entered the Ministry of Supply in 1940 to help the munitions drive, and three years later went to the Board of Trade as personal assistant to Mr. Dalton to help in the planning of post-war industrial reconstruction. He was elected for Battersea North in 1946.

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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 Dulwich

CANDIDATE : Baker

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Baker, a barrister, born in 1913, was commissioned in 1940 and served in Holland and France. Later he commanded a parachute squadron of the Royal Engineers and moved with the 1 st Airborne Division to North Africa in 1943. He was appointed to the planning staff of the Allied Land Forces in South-East Asia in July, 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 : Fulham East

CANDIDATE : Adams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. Adams, barrister and author, was born in 1900 and educated at Haileybury and Cambridge. He sat for West Leeds from 1931 to 1945, and during the war was a major. While in Parliament he helped to promote the Public Urder Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connexion with political objects. His name was found on Hitler’s ” black list.”

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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 North

CANDIDATE : Pick

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Pick, born in 1908 and educated in Bath, spent a number of years in the building trade and property management. He is a hotel proprietor in Buckinghamshire and a member of the Travel 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 : Islington North

CANDIDATE : Burns

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Burns, a railway booking clerk, was previously in the Civil Service and secretary of a local branch of the Post Office Union. Born in 1921, he was educated at a technical school and won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, which he left to go into the Army.

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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 : Lambeth Norwood

CANDIDATE : Chamberlain

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Chamberlain unexpectedly defeated Mr. Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works and son-in-law of Mr. Churchill in the 1945 General Election. Mr. Chamberlain was born in Islington in 1901 and won scholarships to Cambridge University. For some years he was secretary of the National Federation of Housing Societies, and afterwards joined the Miners’ Welfare Commission and later the National Hostels’ Corporation. From 1945 to )948 he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning.

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