CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington North
CANDIDATE : McClatchie
PARTY : Soc. Pty. of Gt. Britain
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. McClatchie is one of two candidates representing the Socialist Party of Great Britain, the other being Mr. Harry Young, in East Ham South.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shoreditch and Finsbury
CANDIDATE : Rippon
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. Rippon, a barrister, aged 25, was elected a member of Surbiton Borough Council at 21, and an alderman at 24. He is chairman of the Finance Committee. At Oxford he was president of the University Conservative Association, and secretary and librarian of the Union. In 1943-44 he was chairman of the Federation of University Conservative Associations.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Central
CANDIDATE : Grant-Ferris
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. Grant-Ferris, born in 1907, followed the family business of estate agents and surveyors, and was called to the Bar in t936. In the same year he won a by-election in North St. Pancras, and sat for that constituency until 1945. He served in the Air Force in Malta and in Egypt, and after demobilization ‘n 1943 returned to Parliament and was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. W. S. Morrison, Minister of Town and Country Planning until the 1945 General Election.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich East
CANDIDATE : Hancock
PARTY : Ind.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Hancock, aged 66, fougnt the election as an Independent Pacifist. He is a Quaker, and he retired from business some years ago to engage in peace and Labour propaganda. He has unsuccessfully fought five Parliamentary elections as a Labour candidate. He has lived in the East End of London for 40 years.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ashton-under-Lyne
CANDIDATE : Blackwell
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. H. Blackwell, aged 30, a clerk, is secretary of the Ashton branch of the Communist Party. He served as a sergeant in North Africa and Italy in the late war.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bebington
CANDIDATE : Soskice
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir Frank Soskice, K.C., who was elected “J 1^45 as member for the old Birkenhead East WSion’ Was Solicitor-General throughout the ~” l aniament. He was born in 1902, and is p S^at-grandson of the pre-Raphaelite painter uā¢ Madox-Brown. During the war he joined The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served in East Africa and the Middle East. He was educated at St. Paul’s School and Balliol, where he held an open classical scholarship ; was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1926, and became a K..C. in 1945 and a Privy Councillor in 1947.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Aston
CANDIDATE : Doughty
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr C. Doughty, son of Sir Charles uoughty, K.C., is a barrister and practises at the Common Law Bar. Born in 1902, he was ?n?cated at Eton and Oxford. Enlisting in WO in The Coldstream Guards, he served in North Africa and Italy, and was demobilized with the rank of major. He is a keen student OI Politics and social conditions.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham King’s Norton
CANDIDATE : Lloyd
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, born in 1902, was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was president of the Cambridge Union in 1924. He entered Parliament in 1931 for the Ladywood division, and after being Parliamentary private secretary to Lord Baldwin when he was Prime Minister, he became Under-Secretary to the Home Office from 1935 to 1939. He was Secretary for Mines, 1939-40, and Minister in charge of the Petroleum Warfare Department, 1940-45 ; and Minister of Information in the ” Caretaker ” Government. He was defeated at the 1945 election. He is president of the Birmingham Unionist Association and has been a governor of the B.B.C. since 1946. He was made a member of the the Privy Council in 1943.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Stechford
CANDIDATE : Jenkins
PARTY : Lab
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. H. Jenkins entered Parliament in 1948 for Central South-wark, a seat which disappeared under the redistribution. Aged 30, he is a son of a former M.P. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and was later engaged on intelligence work. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was secretary and librarian of the Oxford Union, He has written a biography of Mr. Attlee.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackpool South
CANDIDATE : Woodward
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. M. H. Woodward is aged 34 and is managing director of a Trust company in London and Manchester, and is also director of several companies controlling engineering, coal, and publishing. Educated at Bedford School, he is a son of Canon A. L. Woodward. During the war he was commissioned in the R.A.F. He is a freeman of the City of London.
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