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 : Brighton Kemptown

CANDIDATE : Buckley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. M. Buckley, 40 years of age, is a chartered surveyor and valuer, and a member of three regional planning committees and of the National Joint Council for Land Drainage. He served with the Rbyal Engineers in Europe during the war. He is chairman of the Sussex Liberal 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 : Bristol South East

CANDIDATE : Cripps

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1947, is 61, and has represented the division since 1931. Son of the Labour peer Lord Parmoor—a former Conservative M.P. —he was educated at Winchester and University College, London; was called to the Bar in 1913, took silk in 1927, and was appointed Solicitor-General in 1931, before he had a seat in Parliament. He was expelled from the Labour Party for his association with the ” United Front” movement, and for six years remained ” in the wilderness.” After the outbreak of war he went as Ambassador to Moscow, and later was Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Commons, Minister of Aircraft Production, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Economic Affairs. Early in 1942 he was sent to India by Mr. Churchill to seek agreement on constitutional reform. In 1946 he led the Cabinet mission to India which paved the way to Indian independence.

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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 : Bury and Radcliffe

CANDIDATE : Hindley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Hindley is senior history master at Bury Grammar School, and was educated at Bolton School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with an honours degree in history. He has been active in adult education for many years, and is a Methodist 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 : Coventry East

CANDIDATE : Davis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. H. Davis, born in 1900, was a seagoing wireless operator in the late years of the 1914-18 war, and in the last war was an intelligence officer in the Home Guard. He is the principal of a Birmingham firm of estate agents.

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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 : Croydon North

CANDIDATE : Rowlands

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. O. H. Rowlands comes of an old ral family. He was adopted as prospective candidate for the division in 1948, but in the by-election in March, 1948, stood down in tavour of Air Vice-Marshal Bennett. Mr. Rowlands served in the war with The Middlesex Regiment and the Royal Artillery. He is 42, and is an official of an insurance company.

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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 : Derby North

CANDIDATE : Seely

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. V. Seely is a nephew of the late Lord Mottistone. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he served in the war with the 2nd Armoured Division in the Western Desert. He was captured in 1941, but escaped and, after four months at liberty, crossed the Swiss frontier. He is a director of several firms.

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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 : Ealing North

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Hudson won the new constituency of West Ealing for the Labour Party in 1945. He had been Labour M.P. for Huddersfield from 1923 to 1931, when he was defeated. Mr. Hudson has been a schoolmaster in the north of England and has held office in the N.U.T. A prominent propagandist for the Labour and Co-operative parties, he is also secretary of the National Temperance Federation.

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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 : Eccles

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Jones, aged 39, studied at Bristol University and as a post-graduate at Oxford. For a time he was a Baptist minister at Wake-field, but gave up the Church to pursue social welfare work. He was a pioneer in the establishment of unemployment craft centres and old age pensioners’ clubs, and is a W.E.A. lecturer on sociology. During the war he served at Western Command.

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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 : Finchley

CANDIDATE : Crowder

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. J. F. E. Crowder first entered the House of Commons for Finchley in 1935. Born in 1890, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He is an underwriter and was elected a member of Lloyd’s in 1920. From 1914 to 1919 he served with the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and from 1939 to 1945 he was a staff captain and army welfare officer. For 15 years from 1931 he was a member of Hants County Council and served 13 years on the Fleet Urban Council.

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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 : Grimsby

CANDIDATE : Younger

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. G. Younger, appointed Under-Secre-tary, Home Office in 1947, is son of the 2nd Viscount Younger of Leckie. Born in 1908 he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, 1932. In the war he served as major in the Intelligence Corps in N. Africa and W. Europe. As an M.P. was chairman of the European Committee of Unrra, 1946-47, and on the United Kingdom delegations to the United Nations.

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