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 : Norfolk South West

CANDIDATE : Dye

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Dye had a majority of only 53 when he won this constituency in 1945. A local farmer, he has been a member of the Norfolk County Council since 1934 and is an alderman. He was a Labour Party agent in Cambridgeshire for six years until 1932. Born in 1900, and educated at Ruskin College, Oxford, he is branch secretary of the National Union of Agricultural Workers.

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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 : Wellingborough

CANDIDATE : Lindgren

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. S. Lindgren was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 1946, and was previously Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance. He was born in 1900 and educated at an L.C.C. elementary school. He became a railway clerk, and for many years was on the executive of the Railway Clerks’ Association. The first Labour member of the Hertfordshire County Council, he was elected an alderman in 1939 and served until last year. During the war he was Deputy Regional Commissioner for the West Midlands.

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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 : Carlton

CANDIDATE : Kirk

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. C. Kirk is an alderman of Nottingham County Council, of which he has been vice-chairman. He is a member of 40 committees and sub-committees of the county council and takes a leading part in the public and business life of Nottingham. He is a yarn and silk merchant and a prominent Methodist and local preacher.

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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 : Henley

CANDIDATE : Minoprio

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Minoprio, an insurance expert, was born in 1921, and went to Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a law degree, and was master of Christ Church beagles. He is a keen rider to hounds and a skilled yachtsman. During the war he served with the Welsh Guards.

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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 : Taunton

CANDIDATE : Hopkinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Hopkinson, born in 1902, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, had a long career in the diplomatic service from 1924, serving in Washington, Cairo, Athens, and Lisbon, and was Deputy High Commissioner in Italy in 1944. After the war he took up farming in Devon and also became head of the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat.

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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 : Burton

CANDIDATE : Lyne

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Lyne, who was born in 1884, represented Burton in the last Parliament, having a majority of 760 votes. Until 1914 he was a boot and shoe operative, and after four years’ service in the 1914-18 war became an officer of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. The first chairman of the Northampton Labour Party, he was mayor of that borough for the year 1938-39, and is an alderman. He has been a member since 1920.

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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 : Eye

CANDIDATE : Chadwick

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. L. Chadwick, formerly a teacher, was later an active worker in the Transport and General Workers’ Union, and joined the Communist Party in 1937. She was the first Communist member of the West Suffolk County Council, and her husband has been a Communist member of Leiston U.D.C. for 10 years.

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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 : Surrey East

CANDIDATE : Whine

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Whine is a B.Sc. of the London School of Economics. He was born in 1910 and joined the Labour Party in 1932. A member of Marylebone Borough Council, he is also chairman of the local Labour Party, a member of the Fabian Society, and of the London Co-operative Society. He served in North Africa during the late war. Up to the election he was a temporary Civil servant, a position he resigned in order to become a candidate.

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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 : Reigate

CANDIDATE : Vaughan-Morgan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. K. Vaughan-Morgan, born in 1905, is a son of the late Sir K. P. Vaughan-Morgan, who was M.P. for Fulham from 1922 until his death in 1933. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was successively chairman and president of the East Fulham Conservative and Unionist Association. He was a member of the Chelsea Borough Council from 1928 to 1931, and has represented Chelsea on the London County Council since 1946. He served in the Welsh Guards during the war and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

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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 : Arundel and Shoreham

CANDIDATE : Beardmore

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Beardmore is 33 and an insurance company superintendent formerly at Little-hampton and now at Sunningdale, Berks. An active worker for the Liberals for some years, he was a member of the Chichester Division executive, 1946-48. He served with the R.A.S.C. during the war, reaching captain’s rank.

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